Hello, and welcome to technique five of strategy seven attitudes. Technique five states to know your voice, know your voice. The first half of those were a lot of don'ts. The first half of this strategy. The second half, focuses more on being true to yourself, trusting your instincts, knowing who you are. It's a very important process in life.

But almost everything that you do in life you also want to apply to your writing life. Writing is a great metaphor for life in that way. Know Your voice is one of the important things just like Know thyself. Explanation even if you write in various genres and subjects keep a certain uniqueness in everything that you write. Keep your voice in each piece of writing and don't change it to fit the piece, though other elements will change. Now, let me clarify here.

The style of each piece will change according to the rhetorical situation, your tone will change, your attitude will even change. But there's a certain uniqueness, like I said, that you want to keep throughout where you're you and where you don't compromise who you are in order to create a peace. Once again, try new things, experiment, figure out who that you is, and that you may evolve. But when you know who you are, try to be consistent with that and be true to that. Because when you try to be like somebody else or you I'm not saying don't imitate good writers, but when you suppress who you really are in your writing, you're denying the world the wonderful uniqueness that is you. And if you think about other writers, and ones that are very unique, or singers or artists that have their own unique flavor, signature style, color, emotion, what would our world be like without Shakespeare's uniqueness?

What would it be like without Toni Morrison's uniqueness or Picasso's or box or Mozart's it would be You know, or Bob Marley, I mean, the world would just be a lot less colorful. I'm just very grateful and very thankful that those artists were very true to themselves and they let their own uniqueness come through because that's what make their music and their art beautiful and it applies to writing life in all forms of art. But be true to your identity and your voice and your heritage. That doesn't mean that you cannot write different people, cultures and experiences, but your voice should be uniquely yours. Read diverse, eloquent writers. And you'll get a clear picture that no voice is the same.

Shakespeare and Toni Morrison are both celebrated are authors, both worlds apart, give the world the enjoyment of your unique voice. And those are the examples that I came up with that one. So just think about anything that you love, whether it's movies or music or art or novels or poetry. Or just think of anything like that and think about the diversity and think about how you love certain artists that might be similar. And then think about how you love certain artists that are so wildly and crazy different from each other. And it's wonderful that we have that gift.

It's an amazing thing to have. And so don't deny the world, your unique flavor in that sense as well. And so know your voice and even when you change your rhetorical situation, try to keep a certain uniqueness in everything that you do. And that is technique number five