How I got there: Taylor Swift’s seven tips on career success - Vogue Australia

1. Don’t lose your self-awareness It was after watching Behind the Music, a documentary series on VH1 that profiled music acts that made Swift realise what kept musicians in the game. “It would always seem like the decline of an artist was always attributed to a combinations of things, but I noticed the top elements were loss of self-awareness and making bad art, and usually one led to the other. When you lose your self-awareness you start thinking, ‘Oh I’m untouchable, everything around me loves everything I do, I have nothing left to prove’. That kind of loss of self-awareness can be so dangerous.” Plus, it helps her writing. “That’s why I have days where I have really healthy self-esteem and things are in a great place, and then I have days where self-doubt is my primary emotion and that’s ok, because that means you’re living a human, emotional, unaffected life... ups and downs as a songwriter are really important because what else are you going to write about if you honestly think

1. Don’t lose your self-awareness It was after watching Behind the Music, a documentary series on VH1 that profiled music acts that made Swift realise what kept musicians in the game. “It would always seem like the decline of an artist was always attributed to a combinations of things, but I noticed the top elements were loss of self-awareness and making bad art, and usually one led to the other. When you lose your self-awareness you start thinking, ‘Oh I’m untouchable, everything around me loves everything I do, I have nothing left to prove’. That kind of loss of self-awareness can be so dang