Diamonds Don’t Form Without Pressure
Tweet · Jan 15, 2026
As you climb, people root for you as the underdog.
But you don’t have any authority yet. You haven’t “done it yet”
When you’ve made it, you have the authority, but then the critics come out of the woodworks.
I haven’t been on the other side of the mountain yet, but I’ve seen it.
Years spent building a personal brand to a level of success and then
fans become critics.
Encouragement becomes jealousy.
The only solution for this is to never post.
Never put anything out into the world
And never share the value that you have to provide.
But that’s the easy way out.
That’s the path of least resistance.
You’re better than that.
As a diamond is made under pressure, so are you.
By:
the resistance of the world
the comments of the critics
the doubts
the eye rolls and blank looks
the people that “just don’t get it”
Stay in the fight and remember:
“One day you will tell your story of how you overcame what you went through and it will be someone else’s survival guide.”