Sara Bareilles - Uncharted
(Director's Cut, funny, with Ben Folds)
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| Mmmm...delicious chocolate Berlin Wall. |
My CONTROVERSIAL United Business Class Opinion
Producer Told LEGEND Song was A TERRIBLE Idea…Became a BILLION DOLLAR Enterprise!
Since being terminated following my January 2021 accident, there has been one massive improvement* in my life: I don't spend literally every day trying to get people to "like" me / my organization.
Ever since Anne and I founded Animal Liberation Action in the early 90s, I have been desperate to figure out how to get donors to fund our efforts to help animals. And since the truism is "People give to people," that meant getting people to like me. 😖
As I mentioned before, 2022 was the first time in literally decades that I took a vacation** and didn't spend a significant part of each day marketing myself and my group. For example: in the 3+ years leading up to 2021's final betrayal, I spent every single day** trying to get members of the media to write about the organization I worked for.
No more.
Which is good, 'cuz I suck at it almost as much as I hate it.
Every time I see headlines like those in BOLD above***, I'm so grateful to be off that treadmill. (And when I see those headlines, I temporarily feel bad for those individuals who are spending their time playing the "out-shout the competition for eyeballs" game. But then I realize I am just projecting - surely some people enjoy it.)
* This improvement didn't come about right away, of course. From September 2022 -> ~July 2023, my insatiable ego desperately wanted more people to read and review Losing. (Thanks so much to everyone who wrote to me and reviewed it. 👍 ) That book is the culmination of my professional life, and its failure**** was the perfect capstone to that failed half of my life.
Desire causes suffering.
** Except when in the hospital.
*** Still waiting on those abs....
**** Some non-failures: At least one person who was totally unknown to me somehow came across the book, read it, and donated to One Step. Also, a professional, full-time writer wrote this to me (but won't review the book publicly, natch), and a famous best-selling author and former bigshot at the DNC called it "wonderfully idiosyncratic."
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