Is it possible to be a good blogger if you don't have some kind of a chip on your shoulder?
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I think it’s possible, but you’d need a different source of motivation
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I don’t know what motivates people besides pettiness and resentment
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I think this is basically wrong. If you know what motivates you, you will generally find other media to express yourself, not blogging. Like Twitter. Blogging tends to clarify very illegible motives into less illegible ones.
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By "blogging" I mean specifically something like the meaningness project, your "gonzo density", manifesto-building etc.
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Yeah, chip-on-shoulder is not very workable for that. It can power things like standup, music, entrepreneurship, polemic, journalism, etc. Taleb is a rare longform resentment/spite guy.
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Entrepreneurship/polemic/journalism is roughly the exact combo I'm going for. Good disentanglement.
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I found Gregory Berns book Satisfaction a useful read for this topic. Resentment/spite operates at pleasure principle level (seek pleasure/avoid pain). Satisfaction hooks into anticipation based motivation.


