Amrita Jeremiah

Be so hungry to learn that you drop the act of knowing it all.

Curiosity beats pretending. Ask sharper questions, find people who make you rethink what you believe, and actually listen. When you stop needing to be right and start needing to grow, every conversation becomes a classroom.

Pride stops running the show, and progress takes over

Being able to spin up a room of your own with a few clicks is one of the great advantages we have over previous generations. Make use of it.

Writing is a costly signal of caring about something. Good writing, in fact, might be a sign of pathological caring.

What I really want to know is: why do you care? You could have spent your time knitting a pair of mittens or petting your cat or eating a whole tube of Pringles. Why did you do this instead? What kind of sicko closes the YouTube tab and types 10,000 words into a Google doc? What’s wrong with you? If you show me that—implicitly, explicitly, I don’t... See more

, we were supposed to make sure it had two things: an argument (“thesis”) and a reason to make that argument (“motive”). Everybody understood what a “thesis” is, whether or not they actually had one. But nobody understood “motive”. If I asked a student why they wrote the essay in front of them, they’d look at me funny. “Because I had to,” they’d... See more

A storyboard is like a map of your novel. It will document the beginning, middle, and ending of your novel. You can use this map to stay on course throughout your writing process.