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8 thoughts on Writing to Learn by William Zinsser (1998) 1. Writing is a way to explore a question and gain control over it. 2. An idea can have value in itself, but its usefulness diminishes to the extent that you can’t articulate it to someone else. 3. Writing organizes and…

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Jordan Peterson on writing: "If you can think, and speak, and write, you are absolutely deadly. Writing is thinking formalized. You gain the ability to think by first learning to write very, very carefully. Then, when you can write effectively, you can do anything you want."

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The paradoxes of modern life @david_perell 's mini essay:

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C.S. Lewis on why you need to read more old books: “It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable…

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13 remarkable tweets from Shane Parrish ( @ShaneAParrish ), the creator of Farnam Street: 1. One mark of a smart person is the ability to learn from people they don’t like. 2. The most powerful productivity tool ever invented is simply the word "no." 3. Rich people have money.…

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How to find your life’s work? 5 strategies from Robert Greene: 1. The Primal Inclination Strategy: Einstein became obsessed with a compass at 5. He wondered: what was the invisible force moving the needle? He spent his life unravelling the mystery of invisible forces. Robert…

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C.S. Lewis on why you need to read more old books: “It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable…

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THIS reading list will 10x your understanding of tech and capitalism: 1. Andreessen archive: ( @pmarca ) 2. Balaji archive: ( @balajis ) 3. Altman archive: ( @sama ) 4. Peter Thiel archive: …

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Only obsessive readers can become great writers. By reading, you develop your taste. You train your mind to tell good books from bad. And above all, you cultivate a vision of what writing should be. Over time, you become less and less satisfied with what's out there. This…

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The most powerful lines from Clear Thinking (2023), the new bestseller from Shane Parrish: 1. Admitting you're wrong isn't a sign of weakness, it's a sign of strength. 2. It takes courage to accept feedback that bruises your self-image. 3. The most powerful story in the world…

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Rory Sutherland on the cost of being too logical: "It is much easier to be fired for being illogical than it is for being unimaginative. The fatal issue is that logic always gets you to exactly the same place as your competitors." Dream a little. It's your competitive edge.

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Jordan Peterson on writing: "If you can think, and speak, and write, you are absolutely deadly. Writing is thinking formalized. You gain the ability to think by first learning to write very, very carefully. Then, when you can write effectively, you can do anything you want."

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A Big List of Writing Advice From the How I Write podcast: 1. Many of your best ideas will emerge in fits of rage or frustration. Channel the fury. (Marc Andreessen | @pmarca ) 2. If simple words were enough for Hemingway, they’re enough for you. (Sam Parr | @thesamparr ) 3.…

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Every creator should pin Orson Welles' definition of style on their desk: “Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.” Know your vision—and your warts. Know the feeling you want to leave your audience with. And then forget about the thousand…

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Your greatest work happens at the confluence of your unconnected obsessions. Tolkien's college tutors were in "despair" over his random hobbies: writing verse, constructing new languages, and dragon tales. But without them, he would've never written Lord of the Rings.…

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You are up doing nothing at all, but you won't sleep. You're reading and watching things you have no interest in. No one lived like this 20 years ago — but now it's a universal experience. This is "Revenge Bedtime Procrastination," and it is ruining your life👇🏻

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7 lessons from The Learning Game:

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C.S. Lewis on why you need to read more old books: “It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable…

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Everyone is a creator. To create is to bring something of value out from the vast pile of randomness. It is our perception and reaction to the world that makes anything into something. This is the inner-artist: the human who yearns to create.

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13 thoughts on writing from C.S. Lewis: 1. Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them. 2. Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “more people died,” don’t say “mortality rose.” 3. Much of my…

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Casey Neistat, on the simplicity of his YouTube videos.

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The best things in life are simple. A thin cut of sushi. A steak without sauce. The elegance of an iPhone. Complicated things can be a cover-up for lazy craftsmanship.

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19 pieces of writing advice from 19 winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature:

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Write with blood, Nietzsche said. What did he mean? A lesson on reaching people in an era of infinite content:

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Join the writing bootcamp that changed the growth trajectory of @culturaltutor , @packyM , @anafabrega11 , @amandanat , and many others. The Write of Passage Bootcamp, taught by @david_perell , is now open for enrollment! Details here:

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What a magnificent thing a book is. Decades of study. Years of writing. Compressed into something that takes less than 24 hours to consume. Once complete, the knowledge persists through time and transcends international borders. All yours for the price of a casual lunch.

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Jordan Peterson on writing: "If you can think, and speak, and write, you are absolutely deadly. Writing is thinking formalized. You gain the ability to think by first learning to write very, very carefully. Then, when you can write effectively, you can do anything you want."

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C.S. Lewis: "Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else." Readers will forgive imperfect grammar; they'll never forgive a writer bored by his own subject. Perfect craft is dead on arrival without passion.

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Vincent Van Gogh wrote that people become insincere to buffer themselves from "real sorrow." This destroys their creativity. If you put a wall between you and the world, don't be surprised if new ideas stop coming in. For Vincent Van Gogh, real strength lay not in emotionally…

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Rudyard Kipling's CV is insane: • Youngest ever winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature • Creator of the iconic Jungle Book • A crater on Mercury named after him In 1893, his sister-in-law asked for writing advice. He sent back 5 important tips: 1. "When in doubt cut out."

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You're wasting time. Everything that can be written, has been written. ...So says your inner critic. It's dead wrong. In 1899, Punch Magazine wrote: "Everything that can be invented, has been invented." The next hundred years saw the invention of the airplane, atom bombs, and…

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13 thoughts on writing from C.S. Lewis: 1. Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them. 2. Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “more people died,” don’t say “mortality rose.” 3. Much of my…

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The modern world has “Excellence-Phobia.” You’re labeled “judgmental” if you dare separate good from bad. Inequality is the big bad villain, but quality is impossible without the hierarchy of good, bad, and the best. Part of the phobia goes back to confusing ego with excellence.…

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Churchill wasn't just fighting a World War in 1940. He was also fighting office jargon. He sent 5 writing commands to his War Department in a memo titled BREVITY: 1. Use short, expressive, and direct words—even when controversial. 2. Stop padding memos with "woolly phrases."…

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What’s common between the Harry Potter books and Steve Jobs’ 1997 business plan to turn Apple around? Both sketched by hand. Princeton students did better on tests when they made notes on paper versus a laptop. Write by hand to unlock ideas that don’t come out on the keyboard.

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Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin on the two types of writers in the world: “I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house. They know how many rooms are going to…

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9 thoughts on having original ideas: 1. Dostoevsky: “Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.” 2. Multi-tasking is costly. Leonardo Da Vinci: “As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.” 3. Bet on your…

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Rudyard Kipling, creator of the iconic Jungle Book, is also the youngest ever winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1893, his sister-in-law asked for writing advice. He sent back 5 important tips: 1. "Be sincere at any and every cost."

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Peter Thiel's advice to his younger self: "My advice for you—the advice I wish I could've given my younger self—is this: Before getting swept up in the competitions that define so much of life, ask yourself whether you even want the prize on offer." Write down your goals. Make…

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Your zone of genius is what’s most effortless and natural for you. It’s the thing you’re able to work and excel at while being truly relaxed, it’s the state in which you can create instantaneously, without too much thought or trying too hard.

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10 thoughts on writing from Martin Amis: 1. All writing is a campaign against cliché. Not just clichés of the pen but clichés of the mind and clichés of the heart. 2. Don’t dumb down: always write for your top five per cent of readers. 3. A creative idea is a telegram from the…

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Riva Tez ( @rivatez ) on why creativity demands an openness to chaos: "Something I notice when I watch people trying to think creatively is this huge psychological barrier against allowing any form of chaos to seep in. Maybe creativity needs you to be at least receptive to a…

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The C.S. Lewis Paradox of Originality: "In art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original; whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring how often it has been told before), you will become original without ever having noticed it."

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3 writing insights from @david_perell : 1. Writing will humble you by making you see how flimsy and imprecise your thinking is all day. 2. The pain of writing is actually the pain of improving your thinking. 3. Writing tip: Take half your commas, and replace them with periods.

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This week, David Perell wrote: "Big business opportunities are low status." The most surprising example of this: Romance novels. No one wants to write romance novels, but... 2023's biggest fiction bestseller is a romance novel: It Starts With Us. In fact, the romance genre is…

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Peter Thiel on how cults are a sign of a healthy society: "Today, you can’t start a cult. Forty years ago, people were more open to the idea that not all knowledge was widely known. From the Communist Party to the Hare Krishnas, large numbers of people thought they could join…

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The quality of your writing comes down to the quality of your mind. You need to explore, dare, and live. The written page is nothing but a distillation of your spirit. Goethe's timeless advice holds: "If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his…

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Nietzsche judged music, books, and humans by the same standard: "Our first questions about the value of a book, of a human being, or a musical composition are: Can they walk? Even more, can they dance?" Ordinary writers produce stagnant sentences. Extraordinary writers? Their…

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10 thoughts on writing: 1. "We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand." - C.S. Lewis 2. “I never wrote things down to remember; I always wrote things down so I could forget.” - Matthew McConaughey 3. "Of all that is written, I love only what a…

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This graphic, right here, perhaps contains the most valuable writing advice in the world. "Don't just write words. Write music."

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A woman who sold 2 billion books said the following about writing: "There is no agony like it. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off." - Agatha Christie Lesson: Every…

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Here's a great irony of art: Talented people doubt themselves the most because they develop taste before skill. Their work trails their ambition... Francis Ford Coppola, the man who wrote and directed Godfather, once said: "When I was sixteen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted…

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Jordan Peterson on writing: "If you can think, and speak, and write, you are absolutely deadly. Writing is thinking formalized. You gain the ability to think by first learning to write very, very carefully. Then, when you can write effectively, you can do anything you want."

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A Big List of Writing Advice From the How I Write podcast: 1. Start with one brave sentence and see where it goes. (Morgan Housel | @morganhousel ) 2. Discipline beats talent when talent isn’t disciplined. (Steven Pressfield | @SPressfield ) 3. You can make a career out of…

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The Redbull founder lived, to his last day, in an Austrian town with less than 1500 residents. But it was a Thailand trip that inspired him to get into the energy drink biz. Lesson: Combine great solitude with great exposure. Seek novel experiences but retain your unique POV.

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13 remarkable tweets from Shane Parrish ( @ShaneAParrish ), the creator of Farnam Street: 1. One mark of a smart person is the ability to learn from people they don’t like. 2. The most powerful productivity tool ever invented is simply the word "no." 3. Rich people have money.…

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Here's David Perell ( @david_perell ) on why great CEOs are great sloganeers The story behind "3 lines, 3 words each"👇

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Surprising fact: To create something truly great you have to repeat a small number of powerful words over and over again

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"The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more you must seduce the senses to it." — Friedrich Nietzsche

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Write with blood, Nietzsche said. What did he mean? A lesson on reaching people in an era of infinite content:

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Writer Jack London was making $10,000 every month in 1910. In today’s terms, that’s….$250,000. He was arrested thrice in the Russo-Japanese War until President Roosevelt had to personally intervene. Five notes for young writers from one of history’s first literary celebrities:

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Writing isn’t putting a jumble of letters in the right order for the sake of purging an overflowing mind. Good writing should flow like water, it should feed knowledge to its reader without wasting a single word.

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Twitter’s magic is the way it forces concision. Most writing is too verbose. Whenever I need to shorten string of sentences, I plug them into Twitter and shorten them into 280 characters.

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Franz Kafka once said, “The meaning of life is that it ends.” The real upside of realizing that life ends is coming to serious terms with the questions, "how should I spend the limited time I have left? How can I actualize my potential in this lifetime?"

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Rick Rubin's notes on creativity: 1. Look for what you notice but no one else sees. 2. The act of creation is an attempt to enter a mysterious realm. A longing to transcend. 3. All art is a work in progress. It’s helpful to see the piece we’re working on as an experiment. One…

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Why ideas matter and how to have more original ones: 1. Dostoevsky: “Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.” 2. Multi-tasking is costly. Leonardo Da Vinci: “As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.”…

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The Perkins Paradox: If you're hopelessly outmatched, you're on the right path. It shows you're playing at the edge. Max Perkins to Hemingway: "If you are not discouraged about your writing on a regular basis, you may not be trying hard enough." Despair often precedes greatness.

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In a world of boring generalizations, stun people with details. Make your sentences vivid. Create scenes that haunt your readers. As the novelist Richard Price put it: "You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road."

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Agatha Christie sold 2 BILLION books. She wrote the longest-running play ever (The Mousetrap; still running in London). She's also the most translated author in human history. And she didn't even attend school until age 15. 5 insights on writing from Agatha Christie:

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Slow down to speed up.

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Internet's seven best conversations on writing: 1. Marc Andreessen ( @pmarca ) on how rage, channeled well, will make you creative: 2. Morgan Housel ( @morganhousel ) on why writing is an efficiency game: 3. Riva Tez ( @rivatez ) on…

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Da Vinci worked on the Mona Lisa for more than 16 years. Cologne Cathedral was built over 7 centuries. LOTR took Tolkien 17 years to write. He was a full-time college prof with no free time. He abandoned the project only to restart it during WW-II and send his son, fighting on…

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Ditch adjectives. C.S. Lewis explains: "Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers: Please will you do the job for me." Lesson:…

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Meet the real life Don Draper. William Bernbach grew his ad firm by 40x and created classic ads for Polaroid and Volkswagen. 14 thoughts from a creative mastermind: 1. If you stand for something, you will always find some people for you and some people against you. If you…

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How to find your life’s work 5 strategies from Robert Greene: 1. The Primal Inclination Strategy: Einstein became obsessed with a compass at 5. He wondered: what was the invisible force moving the needle? He spent his life unravelling the mystery of invisible forces. Robert…

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“Do what you love” is easier said than done. Many of us have no idea what we love because our education has taught us to do unpleasant tasks in order to prepare for the real world. For many of us, school was not delightful, it was not fun, and we were taught to endure it;

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David Ogilvy on creativity in 10 points: 1. How to tell the truth: Tell the truth, but make the truth fascinating. You know you can’t bore people into buying your product, you can only interest them into buying it. 2. Committees kill creativity: Much of the messy advertising…

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Create a routine that encourages daily writing, create systems that make writing a habit. All high-quality writers have been high-quantity writers.

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On Taste The great irony of art is talented people doubt themselves the most because they develop taste before skill. Their work trails their ambition... Francis Ford Coppola, the man who wrote and directed Godfather, once said: "When I was sixteen, I wanted to be a writer. I…

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the only way to be happy with your work is to raise your skill to the level of your taste

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The most successful writers follow the "High Exposure, Low Conformity" principle. They expose themselves to a wide range of beliefs... but they conform to nothing. Nothing, that is, except their inner vision. As C.S. Lewis put it: "Write about what really interests you, whether…

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Only obsessive readers can become great writers. By reading, you develop your taste. You train your mind to tell good books from bad. And above all, you cultivate a vision of what writing should be. Over time, you become less and less satisfied with what's out there. This…

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Risk-taking is an important part of the writing skillset. Risk-taking allows great writers to find real, raw, and rewarding ideas. Anne Lamott explains: “If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must…

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Montaigne wrote for himself. He basically said it would be "unreasonable" for others to read his "frivolous" essays. Millions read him today. Meanwhile people obsessed with market research, trends, and analytics often get no traction. This is the Paradox of Creative Work: others…

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Become an intellectual flaneur. Walk through an old library without a plan; ask two very different people the exact same question and note the answers. Steve Jobs said creativity is nothing but "connecting the dots." You win if you collect and connect more dots than others.

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The daily schedules of famous creatives.

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The creative schedule: Short bursts of extreme intensity, surrounded by long periods of chill.

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Why did David Ogilvy say that the "best ideas come as jokes?" Because great ideas, like jokes, highlight what people would rather forget. They touch a nerve. They shine the spotlight on useful but uncomfortable truths. Hence Ogilvy said: "Make your thinking as funny as possible."

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Dr. Seuss on the value of humor: "Nonsense wakes up the brain cells." Once you can see the world "out of whack," then you can see it "in whack." Nonsense becomes a portal to better sense. Humor is a splash of cold water for the brain.

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Here's the difference between good and great books: Good books give you a short spike of knowledge while great books give you a much longer tail of insights. They're enlightening in the moment, sure, but they also give you things to chew on for the long-term. You get ideas that…

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Speed is your friend. Gone with the Wind sold 202,286,200 tickets and it was written in 5 days flat. Speed is a litmus test, making bad ideas show their cracks and good ones, their beauty. An experiment: Work faster than you think you can, and just see what happens.

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Three superhuman examples from the world of writing: 1) Stephen King has published 60 novels and 200 short stories by writing 2,000 words per day, 365 days per year. 2) Isaac Asimov wrote for at least six hours per day, and either wrote or edited 500 books and almost 100,000…

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David Perell

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Otherworldly stamina is a near prerequisite for outlier success. We all get 24 hours per day, but energy determines how many productive hours you get, and though I'm a fairly high-output person, the entrepreneurial Energizer Bunnies I know easily do 3x more focused work than me.

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Schopenhauer said that learning by reading other people is like putting on an "artificial limb" or "false tooth." It's not yours until you process it in your own mind, using your own words. Schopenhauer: "Truth acquired by thinking of our own is like a natural limb; it alone…

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If you’re constantly reading without writing about what you consume, you’re over-estimating your knowledge retention. Writing is how you digest ideas. Knowledge can only seep from the head to the heart once you translate other people’s ideas into your own words.

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10 thoughts on writing from Martin Amis: 1. All writing is a campaign against cliché. Not just clichés of the pen but clichés of the mind and clichés of the heart. 2. Don’t dumb down: always write for your top five per cent of readers. 3. A creative idea is a telegram from the…

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3 thoughts on chatGPT and writing from Marc Andreessen ( @pmarca ), the man who invented the web browser: 1. GPT has revealed how much writing is pure pablum. Bland, lifeless, uninsightful, unoffensive, and not worth the price of the ink it was printed with. 2. "With GPT, every…

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Spent two hours with Marc Andreessen, who gave me a masterclass on how to think, learn, read, research, and write. Here's what I learned: 1. Read, read, read... then read some more. 2. Many of your best ideas will emerge in fits of rage or frustration. Channel the fury. Smash…

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Nietzsche wrote about our stormy relationship with God. Socrates wrote about the tension between free speech and social stability. They wrestled with eternal questions instead of chasing the newest fads. And so they are—and will be—read centuries after their death. A thread:

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Jeff Bezos is the master. True to his belief in simplicity, he distilled his original vision for Amazon Web Services into a handful of simple bullet points that changed the culture of the company.

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David Perell

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Know a CEO who used to write 25-page memos until he realized they led to tons of confusion. And so, he pivoted to simplicity. He now distills his strategy into three lines with three words each. That's it. He says: "Focused companies are built on simplicity and repetition."

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Balaji obsessively studies history ("The past is as surprising as the future"), Marc Andreessen has recommended an 1864 book on 10+ podcasts ("The Ancient City") and Musk is a Will Durant stan ("The Story Of Civilization"). The smartest people in the world are old books-pilled.

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It’s easy to assume that creativity is just free self-expression. But that’s not completely true—the paradox of creativity is that self-expression is only free when there are boundaries. Structure gives form to freedom. Art without form is not art; it’s chaos.

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Nietzsche judged music, books, and humans by the same standard: "Our first questions about the value of a book, of a human being, or a musical composition are: Can they walk? Even more, can they dance?" Ordinary writers produce stagnant sentences. Extraordinary writers? Their…

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"The world is a very malleable place. If you know what you want, and you go for it with maximum energy and drive and passion, the world will often reconfigure itself around you much more quickly and easily than you would think." — Marc Andreessen

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David Perell

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My life got immeasurably better once I started going all-in on my convictions instead of hedging and optimizing for optionality.

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What is a low-effort thing you can do that will have an outsized positive impact on the world? Tyler Cowen's ( @tylercowen ) answer is fantastic: "At critical moments in time, you can raise the aspirations of other people significantly, especially when they are relatively young,…

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Marcus Aurelius ruled the Roman Empire during the day but went to his journal every night. Theodore Roosevelt wrote books on hunting and war before he became the 26th U.S. President. Few habits have a ROI as high as writing—it clarifies your vision and makes you more effective.

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Common phrases can contain uncommon insights. In her new book, @SchrodingrsBrat writes: "Watch what you put inside your mind. We call it paying attention because there's a cost to consumption. Be careful of what you're spending your attention on - it makes up what you think,…

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Naval ( @naval ) on books, mental muscles, and using twitter as a notetaking app: 1. Books make for great friends, because the best thinkers of the last few thousand years tell you their nuggets of wisdom. 2. We live in the age of Alexandria, when every book and every piece of…

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