Thought provoking
look for the intersection between your personal experience and the topic you want to write about.
what makes you feel like an outsider in your chosen topic is often what makes you valuable. Your outsider status isn’t a bug it’s a feature.Every great unique angle has a "but" in it. It takes conventional wisdom and adds a twist.The best way to know if your angle is working is to write about it using your real experiences.
Want to know the best way to start writing online?
Answer prompts.
It's how I became the most-read writer on a platform called Quora with 300+ million active users.
Here’s 3 of my favorite prompts to get you started:
What was your first job, and what's 1 lesson you learned you'll remember forever?
What was the biggest mistake you made as a young
... See moreinstead of teaching people HOW to do something, you help them build the beliefs that make your course feel like the obvious next step.
A premise is the core idea informing the rest. It's an assertion you make (you see things a certain way compared to others and you're here to defend that stance) about a topic you explore(which others explore too, but differently) which alignsyour choices (like a coherent circle around your business) and informs your reputation (you become known... See more
How I'd Improve the Premise of a Marketing Legend: Reworking Joe Pulizzi's 3 Signature Projects
Your product feels too basic
You keep overthinking because “this already exists.”
Use the Depth Layer Method:
• Start with your version of the topic
• Add 3 insights from your real-life experience
•... See more
Mike Thomsonsubstack.comturn a few of your 1-year or monthly goals into a project.
- Ideate a way to build something tangible (you must do work)
- Write down milestones you can reach
- Create an outline in a notes app or notebook
- Brain-dump any ideas that come to mind
You won't be the same person in 6 months (how to master anything, fast)
"the question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."
- edsger dijkstra
break your massive goal down into tangible sub-goals.
- 10-year goals
- 1-year goals
- Monthly goals
- Weekly goals
You won't be the same person in 6 months (how to master anything, fast)
every day, you are going to write down 3-5 priority tasks that move the needle toward these goals from the ground up.
sell transformation (which doesn't exist yet). Insight (connections you can't touch). Prevention (problems that won't happen). Potential (possibility without form).