Here are a couple changes of perspective I found interesting:

Half your stuff is below average

If you write one hundred books half of your books will be below average. Always. Mathematically, you can’t make everything perfect every time you do it. You can only strive to improve.

How long is a billion?

How much is a million? How about a billion? If one second is one number, how long is a million? Take a guess. It’s over eleven days long, counting non stop. Now, how about a billion? How long is that? Three-hundred days? A year? Two years? Ten?
No. In fact, a billion seconds is over thirty-two years. Thirty-two ! Do you know how long that is? I know I can’t. I haven’t even lived twenty. I can only imagine. And that is only assuming you count one number a second. If you were actually to count to a billion it would take you longer. Try saying this in a second: four hundred seventy-five million, two hundred thirty-one thousand, nine hundred and sixty-six. Now try saying the number sequential to that.

We often underestimate how big numbers really are. After all they’re just numbers on paper or a screen. But when you try putting them to a scale you can feel, then you appreciate it for what it is.

They won’t remember YOU

When you die the world will continue one as if nothing happened. A couple people will morn, maybe more. In time they will forget and die too. The people they told stories of you to will soon forget and die. With time you will disappear. And it will be as if you never existed. Maybe your name will linger, at best a couple pieces of work. But, they too, in time, will disappear.  Think about it. What do you know of those that lived two thousand years ago? What happened in year 521? Who do you know from then? Do you even care? Probably not. What about 1900. It’s a lot closer. What about the year before you were born? Do you really care? It’s the same with those around you. How many have lived before you? How many do you know? Some you hear of through their works, mostly incomplete, some only by their names. Your person will be forgotten. Only what you do might linger a little bit. Seeking to be remembered is a futile goal. Living while you can is much better one.