At a time when the blogosphere is oversaturated with young daydreamers sharing their thoughts online, staying unique is harder than ever.
If you're blogging yourself, or reading blogs, chances are that you have a creative nature within you. And that's great, and I encourage you to cultivate, inspire and indulge your creativity on a daily basis, in every way you can. I encourage you to seek out inspiration in any way you can, whether that's through exploration, or consumption of other people's media.
And that is absolutely great - there are so many people out there who create content that is wildly inspiring, and that should encourage us all to get out and create more.
The problem lies when you stop being inspired by people, and start copying them.
And yes, it's a fine line. So you see a blog post on Bloglovin' and think, 'hell yeah, I wanna do a post on that'. And that's great. But it's important to thing 'what can I bring to this idea that's new and exciting and different. What is my unique perspective?' - and it's this additional creative thinking that keeps you unique.
We are all a product of our own environments, everything we do, see, read and consume has a bearing on what we create - but in creating something unique, different and exciting, that's how we stay ahead of the curve.
Stealing people's ideas, style and content, will get you nowhere.
Encourage your uniqueness, creativity and personality, and you need never fear being a copycat.
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