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I’m really digging this Note from Tara Fitness. It really shows the effectiveness of simple systems.
Most of what we consume is copywork.
One hit spawns a hundred look-alikes. Transformers breeds Transmutators. Jurassic Park breeds Jurassic City.
Online, same pattern.
For every Dan Koe, Kieran Drew, or Nicolas Cole, thousands echo their beats and hope the algorithm mistakes the echo for the source.
I copy too, but for mechanics, not identity.
Replication is my lab. I want to see how a thing moves. Where the weight sits. Why a line sticks.
I take it apart, label the pieces, then rebuild it so it fits my hands.
That is practice, not publishing.
The trap is confusing imitation with creation.
Most people stop at the surface. They repeat tone, hooks, and formats and expect the results to transfer.
Or worse, they just steal someone’s work and slap their name on it.
They won’t succeed. People aren’t stupid. They can tell when the person has no idea about the mechanics.
Outcomes live in systems, not skins.
Here is the useful version of copywork: study, name, twist, ship.
Study the structure until you can sketch it from memory.
Name the mechanics in plain language so you can reuse them.
Twist one variable at a time until the piece sounds like you.
Ship the version only you could have made.
Your edge is uniqueness.
Not noise. Not volume. If you say what everyone says, you disappear into the stream.
Paddle upstream. Show your stance. Publish something a reader could only attribute to you.
That is what I mean by a niche of one.
Not isolation. Identity. The courage to face the fear of being different, the risk of rejection, and press “publish” anyway.
The people you admire did exactly that.
Use imitation to learn. Then burn the template.
Bring your point of view, your constraints, your lived context. Make it memorable. Make it new.
You are the system. Build like it.
What can you build, right now, that is distinctly yours?
Such perfect advice when so many are looking for their edge!
Such great advice … especially for newbies like me. The tip about useful version of copywork being study, name, twist, ship. Thanks!