> I'm not that interesting; I don't have anything to show off; and inevitably it'll either become a chore or go out of date.
There was a writer (sorry, forgot who), that used to say: it's not that your life is not interesting, it's that you don't have a good storyteller to tell it.
Good storytellers can spin up a great story out of seemingly very boring facts. It's just the way you tell it.
Most youtubers/streamers/influencers are not really saying anything particularly cool or interesting, but they know how to tell it to their audience.
It's very similar to marketing/product. You need a decent product to sell, but most of the success will come from being able to properly market it, not from how good the product is.
In this case, you and your experiences are the product, the stories about them and how to tell them are the marketing.
You can definitely learn how to tell better stories.
One last analogy, you know when someone tells a joke and it's just not funny at all? Then your hear someone else tell exactly the same joke, but now it's actually really funny? The difference is not the joke, but they way they tell it.
There was a writer (sorry, forgot who), that used to say: it's not that your life is not interesting, it's that you don't have a good storyteller to tell it.
Good storytellers can spin up a great story out of seemingly very boring facts. It's just the way you tell it.
Most youtubers/streamers/influencers are not really saying anything particularly cool or interesting, but they know how to tell it to their audience.
It's very similar to marketing/product. You need a decent product to sell, but most of the success will come from being able to properly market it, not from how good the product is.
In this case, you and your experiences are the product, the stories about them and how to tell them are the marketing.
You can definitely learn how to tell better stories.
One last analogy, you know when someone tells a joke and it's just not funny at all? Then your hear someone else tell exactly the same joke, but now it's actually really funny? The difference is not the joke, but they way they tell it.