motivation

luck feels like a force outside our control. But the good news is that we can increase our chances of encountering good luck. That may sound like magic, but it’s not supernatural. The trick is to increase the number of opportunities we have for good fortune to find us. The simple act of publishing your work is one of the best ways to invite a... See more

About 99% of the time, the right time is right now.

Many successful people are like good oil scouts: They spend a lot of time searching for their space, and then they drill deep when they find the right niche

The world’s most successful people tend to be extremely curious, and if you can tell them something interesting and true they didn’t know, you have their attention.

it was hard, but also, hard is not impossible, and I didn’t sign up with the expectation that it would be easy.

Writing is facing your deepest fears and all your failures, including how hard it is to write a lot of the time and how much you loathe what you’ve just written and that you’re the person who just committed those flawed sentences

Talent is overrated, and it is usually conflated with nice style. Passion, vocation, vision, and dedication are rarer, and they will get you through the rough spots in your style when your style won’t give you a reason to get up in the morning and stare at the manuscript for the hundredth day in a row or even give you a compelling subject to write... See more