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Ksenia Anske

October 21, 2017

On selling books…just a little encouraging message to motivate your butt

by Ksenia Anske


Books (Please)! by Alexander Rodchenko, 1924

Books (Please)! by Alexander Rodchenko, 1924

Books (Please)! by Alexander Rodchenko, 1924

Books (Please)! by Alexander Rodchenko, 1924

I can’t stop selling for the life of me. Really, it’s like I was born to sell. I do it with everyone, everywhere, at all times. I used to be ashamed of it. I used to not even understand what it was I was doing. When I was a little girl, I learned to survive by talking people into selling them on the idea of not hurting me. I had to. So I practiced it every day, from very early on. Then, when I understood I could make money with it, I was told it was an egoistic, capitalistic desire that was shameful, and I shouldn’t be selfish, and I’d never be able to do it, and I must be altruistic and self-sacrificing, and on and on and on, the glorious bullshit of patriarchy teaching me to be subservient and non-ambitious and mediocre and quiet and compliant.

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TAGS: selling, motivation, because I love you, get on it, OR ELSE