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Jonathan Nott

@itsnottjonathan

🥁 Drummer | ✍️ Writer | 📸 Photographer
Finding mental liberation through creative practice and helping you do the same.

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LinkedIn: "What's your area of expertise?" Me: "Um... I'm really good at connecting weird dots that probably shouldn't be connected but somehow it works?" LinkedIn: "...that's not a job title" Me: "Watch me"

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Society: "Pick one thing and master it" Renaissance artists: "We're gonna pretend we didn't hear that" Me, with 17 half-finished creative projects: "Thank you, historical validation"

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Feeling scattered with too many creative ideas? Start here: 1.Write out your WHY 2.Share messy, unfinished work 3.Learn high-impact writing 4.Stop overthinking. Post it anyway Clarity comes from creating, not planning.

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Want people to care about your work? Give value: 1.Share your struggles and solutions 2.Teach what you’ve learned 3.Tell us how creativity helps you 4.Make it relatable, not perfect We don’t need more experts. Ee need real humans.

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Can't find your niche? Stop looking for it and start creating. The best niches aren't chosen. They emerge from consistent work that speaks for itself.

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You don't have a creative block. You have a purpose block. You have unlimited ideas floating around, but without a WHY to filter them through, they feel random and meaningless. Purpose is the difference between chaos and creation.

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What I learned after studying 100+ burnt-out artists: They weren't creating for themselves anymore. They were creating for metrics. True artists create to express. Content farmers create for approval. Know which one you are.

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Stop thinking of your scattered interests as ADHD. Think of them as instruments in an orchestra. Without a conductor (your WHY), you get noise. With one, you get a symphony. Your chaos becomes your competitive advantage.

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Creating without purpose is like being a tourist in your own life. You're constantly taking pictures of other people's destinations instead of building your own. Time to stop sightseeing and start pioneering.

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The most successful artists I know all have this in common: They can answer "Why do you create?" in one sentence. Not "what" they create or "how" they create. WHY. That sentence is worth more than any follower count.

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The internet: 'Pick a niche!' My brain: 'But what if I want to play drums AND write AND learn photography?' Plot twist: turns out my niche is being the person who refuses to pick a niche. Meta.