The Best Time To Help People?
Don’t try to change people’s illusions: Wait until they wake up.
The process of leaving the cave — breaking free from ignorance and confronting the truth — is deeply personal and often painful.
It involves questioning long-held beliefs, challenging assumptions, and facing the discomfort of uncertainty.
This journey cannot be forced upon someone.
It requires a willingness from within to seek out the truth, even when that truth is difficult or disorienting.
While you cannot force someone to leave the cave, you can be an invaluable ally once they have emerged.
Because the journey does not end once the cave is left.
This is where the journey starts…
Once someone is out of the cave, they might be overwhelmed by the new reality.
The light, representing truth and knowledge, can be blinding at first.
You can help them by providing context, explaining concepts, and helping them to make sense of the new reality they are experiencing.
Your guidance can prevent them from retreating back into the comfort of the familiar shadows.
But it’s important to understand that you cannot help them get out of the cave!
They have to do that first.
What does that mean for you and your creative work?
Don’t write what you think people want to read, or what will sell, or what will get you praise.
Don’t write what you think people might want to hear.
Write what haunts you, what drives you, what you can’t get out of your head. Write whatever is interesting to YOU!
Dive into the chaotic, uncomfortable places in your mind, the ones most people shy away from.
That’s where the raw, powerful stuff is.
And you will attract your people…
