Nobody else has your exact mix of family, city, music and mistakes. That’s your unfair advantage.

The exact mix of where you grew up, who raised you, what you listened to and what went badly is not repeatable by anyone. That combination cannot be studied or bought, and it lives in the details you assume are too ordinary to mention. Most people spend years trying to sound like the work they admire and leave that advantage sitting untouched.

List five things about your background that seem unremarkable to you. Put one of them into what you are making now. What you assume everybody knows is usually what nobody else does.