You should be more imitative AND more original

 

How’s that possible? Isn’t it mutually exclusive?

It’s possible if you’re poor at imitating

It’s possible if you’re poor at being original

 

It’s exactly what happens:

You call it originality — but you’re just poor at imitating

Or you call it imitating and “doing what works” — but you’re just poor at creating something new

 

If you truly cared only about the quality of the final work — you’d either imitate well or you’d innovate well OR YOU’D DO BOTH

When complacency and incompetence gets between YOU and the QUALITY — then LABELS serve the perfect refuge of self-delusion

 

Therefore get rid of fucking labels

Focus on quality first

If competitors DO it better than you — IMITATE THEM

If you see a room for improvement — EXPLOIT IT

You don’t need any labels to do either

Your only label is “high quality”