Meet SGD Singh

We were lucky to catch up with SGD Singh recently and have shared our conversation below.

SGD, thanks so much for taking the time to share your insights and lessons with us today. We’re particularly interested in hearing about how you became such a resilient person. Where do you get your resilience from?

The resilience to continue writing, despite what would be considered “Failure” by any objective business standard, comes from the love of storytelling. Control what you can control, let the rest go. Indifference is your friend. We can control our discipline in writing habits, our organization, focus. We can control our dedication to writing something to the best of our talent and ability. We cannot control whether or not we sell millions of copies and become a bestselling author. We cannot control whether or not a single reader picks up our book and gives it a chance.
If we do not write for the simple joy and love of writing, we will not have the resilience to continue.

Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?

I’m currently working on the sixth and final book in my Infernal Guard series, which will be the longest book in the series by far and I’m excited for readers to check it out later this year.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

I believe every artist has their own journey, and that every step, every mistake, every obstacle along the way only serves to teach us valuable lessons. Provided we don’t give up, we will develop and improve, guaranteed.
When I first began this writing journey, I had zero skills or areas of knowledge. The only useful quality I can confidently say I possessed was a lifelong love of reading, an endless curiosity for the human condition, and stubbornness.

What was the most impactful thing your parents did for you?

My parents were 47 and 52 when I was born. Children of the Great Depression themselves, they had 5 adult children of their own by then, and had lived full lives, experienced war in Europe, protested unimaginable struggles through our Civil Rights Movement and the forced enlistments of the Vietnam war. My father, aside from becoming fire chief by his retirement, also played saxophone in a jazz band and had a great love for music. My mother helped to develop some of the first systems for caring for children with special needs, wisdom that is still practiced to this day.
They loved humans, and were able to easily put themselves in another person’s shoes, see the world from different perspectives, and I think through the endless stories they told me, that I demanded they tell every day, they gave me that great gift of compassion and empathy as well.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.sgdsingh.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sgd_singh.com
• Twitter: @SgdSingh