Imagine Gary Lightbody, the lead singer of Snow Patrol, is doing a gig, and then after the gig, he goes to the bar. Lots of people there are delighted to see him and want to chat with him or even touch him.
He's super famous.
He's been around forever.
He's written some of the most extraordinary songs.
Imagine while he's in the bar, Ed Sheeran turns up, and then all of a sudden, a huge amount of those people turn around and gravitate towards Ed Sheeran: more famous, more money, more exposure worldwide, maybe even a little bit cooler.
At that point, Gary Lightbody doesn't get less wealthy, or his art doesn't get less relevant or less valid; the songs that he's produced don't become erased; it's just that somebody else is more famous, at least to some people, for a little while.
Imagine that Taylor Swift turns up. Does the same thing happen to Ed Sheeran?
And then I don't know, someone else turns up, say Michael Jackson arrives back from the dead and he's more famous, or even Donald Trump comes in and steals attention.
The point is that we all want to be famous to someone and we all have people who are famous to us and if we're always trying to be more famous or to be more famous or to get more famous, we'll never ever be satisfied.
The work you're doing today is great; it's totally valid, and there are people who love it, which is enough.
You don't need to get one over on the guy next door.
You don't need to be more famous than Frank Sinatra.
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