The other day, I saw a photo of Katy Perry wearing a T-shirt that read, “They don’t build statues of critics.” And I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it.
It’s catchy, sure but it’s also one of those rare one-liners that cuts right to the bone. Because that sentence is more than a clapback. It’s a philosophy. A mindset. A quiet manifesto for people like me and maybe people like you, too. Who wake up every day determined to create something where there was nothing before.
See, I’ve never been the kind of person who needed outside competition to drive me. I’m not chasing the person in the next lane; I’m chasing myself. The only race I’m in is the one between who I was yesterday and who I know I can be tomorrow.
I live by a simple rule: build, don’t bark.