Chasm....
~ From the Days of a South Asian Girl
Heloooo.. Happy March everybody.. I know it is terrible that my rate of publishing blog posts has been limited to 1 blog post per month, which is awful. But let me tell you one thing.. It is not gonna happen again.
I am typing this article right after witnessing a live virtual meetup conducted by Nuseir Yassin or (as we all know) Nas from Nas Daily. This session of his provided me the energy to strive for the next 3-5 months, and I am not gonna waste that energy.
One of the points which he discussed was about “Chasm”. What is chasm? According to Nas’s explanation, chasm is the emptiness we feel even when we are in the middle of achieving our long-term goals.
Nas showed a graph which I couldn’t save it. But let me explain this in a better way.
Suppose you started your own YouTube channel. People from your closed circle will watch those videos, they will share those, drop a comment, and even appreciate you personally. This will motivate you to do more. But then after publishing 20-30 videos more or less, those people will feel bored or whatnot, and they just skip watching those videos, sharing those, and liking those. The same thing has happened to me, and this makes us frustrated and demotivated. We feel lonely. We feel no one’s read or watch our digital creations. This is the period of the chasm.
Most of us; most of the people, give up when they feel that emptiness. But the secret is, we have to cross the chasm because better things are yet to come. Whenever we are trying to quit, we are 1 step away from going viral. That is the secret behind social media.
This is a game that we play with the relevant algorithm. I am posting these blog posts on substack, so I fight with the substack algorithm till the algo. starts pushing my page. If you are a YouTuber in the phase of Chasm, you have to deal with that algorithm till he pushes your work, out to the world.
Once you pass the phase of Chasm, your social media algorithm changes, and your work starts going viral. That’s how Nas from Nas Daily became a world-famous creator that we all admire; that’s how Ali Abdaal hit 2M subscribers on YouTube and that’s how Yohani’s “Manike mage hithe” song became super popular among all of us.
So if they can do such a thing, we all can do way more better than them because now we know how it happens. We just have to be patient and keep on hustling without quitting whenever we feel like quitting.
Personally, I really enjoy every one of your blogs. Keep it up ♥️