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// Task 1: write a list 
// Story: blue wallflower 
// by Mica 
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The first task that I want you to do is to write a list of all the things you have failed at.

Don’t worry if you cannot write. I cannot write either. I just write the things that good writers write. 

Writing a list is not difficult. It is very easy. Just get a piece of paper, or a computer if you wish. And start writing. Every single failure. Write it all down. Write it in the present tense. If you’re not sure if it’s a failure, it probably is.

Start with the most embarrassing failure, and work your way down. If while you’re writing you think of an even more embarrassing failure, just add an asterisk at the top. Put whatever title you like. For example, if I were writing the list, the title could be “I, Wallflower Blush, will always fail at…” or “I, Wallflower Blush, will never be good enough at…” 

Now proofread it carefully. Dot every i, cross every t. Add a professional header if you want. Write this like it’s the most important paper that you’ve ever written.

Now, take a picture or screenshot of the list, and send it to me.

Once you’ve done that, print it out, if you are working on a computer. Crumple up the paper with all your past failures on it, and toss it into a fire. Get up from your chair, stand up, tall and proud, chest out.

And look away from the fire.

They don’t exist. Your failures don’t exist. Nobody remembers your failures. If nobody remembers your successes, how do you expect anybody to remember your failures?

Now go to bed, and spend three hours after midnight tossing and turning in the dark.

Thinking about things that don’t even exist.