I can’t take the credit for this; indeed, I may be butchering the source (which sadly I can’t locate) – but here is something I think is really telling:
We want to measure what we value – but end up valuing what we can measure...
Which is why we focus on likes, shares, subscribers etc. because that’s what Social Media feeds us. And we become obsessed with those numbers, even though we know they’re nowhere near as important as the number of people we’ve touched or inspired with our work…
But here is something I can measure AND which I value and believe is important (to me anyway):
- I have written 29 books (paperback & ebooks of the same text I have counted only once), and have 3 works-in-progress;
- I have published 23 other books, all of which contain the words of other people (anthologies, collection of poetry etc.), and I have 2 w-i-p.
Something to be proud of, I hope.
Ian Gouge - Writer 