I wanted a specific niche
in Romance to be popular.
I knew that was too big
of a task
for one writer (me).
So I shared information
about the niche,
how to write it,
how to sell books in it,
how to be a success in it.
Other writers started
writing in it.
They brought new readers
to it.
It is now
one of the biggest niches
in its subgenre of romance.
Sharing knowledge
with others
CAN be very powerful.
Jessica Richman,
Co-Founder of
uBiome,
shares
“One of the things I said
in my TED Talk is that
the role of the scientist
may transform
from the person
doing the science
into the person
who coordinates,
structures and validates
the amateurs
who are doing the science.
A lot of fields have done this.
If you look at Quora or Wikipedia,
there’s a community
that governs the amateurs,
but the amateurs do all the work, right?
And the community is there
to structure the contributions,
not make them.
And I can see that happening in science,
and I think it should.
Science is the most important thing
humans do, right?
Science has created
the most material changes
and improvements in human life:
sanitation and modern pharmacology
… a very long list of things.
Most of us alive today are alive
because of some kind of scientific effort.
So, why wouldn’t we want that
to go faster?
Why wouldn’t we involve everyone
we possibly can?”
Will involving everyone
you possibly can
in your project
make it more likely
to be successful?