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Brother Tom,
I loved your preachin'! For some people, a bigger ladder IS always there BECAUSE they inherited it or can borrow it from someone. But, for most of us, insecurity keeps us from climbing the next rung.

Security for me comes only AFTER I see that I can indeed create the effect I set out to create. However, in this world, there seems to be a lack on the part of others to cooperate with those of us who wish to create effects because everyone has their own game they are playing and it takes certain things to garner agreement to play your game.

Typically, money and sex are big draws to get agreement. I don't play those games. Second, you have the category of friendship or favors. Third, you have the category of games that are so powerful or aesthetic, that people are drawn to the quality of the game. I play in that last category.

But, even with games that have a huge potential, if you don't have the statistics to make you real enough for a big player to look at you as more than a person off the street, it can be difficult to get your product viewed properly.

So, there are many rungs to climb and too many disappointments along the way...even if you ARE climbing up the rungs!

The trick as I see it (if you are playing in the third category) is to REFINE your product to its highest level possible and then tuck it safely under your arm and just keep finding a way to keep climbing past any and all rejections, barriers, etc.

It's easy to step back down the ladder and blame circumstances for having done so. But, that doesn't get you anywhere except to swallow a good dose of "being a victim."

Maybe the "big ladder" is always there as you said. But, you have to be willing to climb it no matter what barriers come in your way.

Some people try to climb it with a product that they don't fully believe in. That in itself will make the climber back down easily. So, do whatever you can to get that product, song, painting, play, or whatever you've created to be at the top of heap of other songs, paintings, plays etc. BEFORE you start to climb. After all, you're climbing FOR that product...