What if the people buying are not into what you are selling?
Consumer-driven culture and basic economics would argue that supply should meet demand. If you are supplying something that no one seems to want, capitalism argues that you need to shift your product to where the demand seems to be.
But what if the supply is, well… you?
What if you are selling yourself and your skills, or your ideas and your art?
Is it worth shifting the product to meet demand? Should you change to align with what someone seems to want from you?
Say, you submit a proposal for a big idea or walk into a job interview or call into a pitch meeting—and what you are selling there is your ideas, your skills or yourself—but they are not buying?
Are you in the position to say I’m not going to be or do something I’m not, sell something I don’t have, or pretend to be good at a skill I don’t yet have just to get a gig or a deal? Or are you full on ready for the hustle of becoming someone different simply to get the work?
Maybe you are. Maybe you don’t have that luxury.
Either way, it often seems to be little more than a balance between selling yourself …and being yourself.
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