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7 Business Lessons I Learned from 7 Years of Writing
Writing is not only art or craft—it’s also a business
I started to write seriously in 2015. Until that point, I never thought of becoming a writer. I was also unaware of how writing is one of the best practices in life. And that it would teach me some of the most important business lessons.
Together with exercising, meditating, and reading; the practice of writing brought me many things, including a meaningful career. It also taught me lessons about life, which I’ve written about in the past.
In this article, I want to focus on the business lessons I learned from writing online for an audience. You can apply these lessons to any type of career or (solo) business.
1. Ownership is everything
Publishing something publicly means you take ownership of what you write. If you don’t stand by your words, it’s all meaningless and no one will ever care.
It’s the same with any product or service. If a business takes full ownership and stands by its product, it will guarantee anything. If you believe in what you create on a deep level, you simply do better work. And it will show in your end results.
