Forest Linden
@forestlinden
Eternal learner, rabbit holer, curator, and synthesizer. Father, husband, my dog's human, and wilderness wanderer. I write only when I have something worth saying and try to help people through my writing.
Forest Linden
If you want to become obscenely wealthy, just sell something that people don’t stop buying.
-Alex Hormozi
The longer I live the more I learn that love — whether we call it friendship, family, or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light.
—James Baldwin
... See more“The perfectionist is never satisfied. The perfectionist never says, ‘This is pretty good. I think I’ll just keep going.’ To the perfectionist, there is always room for improvement. The perfectionist calls this humility. In reality, it is egotism. It is pride that makes us want to write a perfect script, paint a perfect painting, perform a perfect
1. “We tell stories because we have a hollow place in our heart. You don’t fill that with success. You fill it by finding yourself in the stories you tell.”
–Guillermo Del Toro
–Guillermo Del Toro
Britton Perelman • Just a moment...
There's nothing I revile quite as much as a dilettante. I don't like doing something to a mediocre level. It's great to be 70, because you really get to preach with some authority:
Get good at something. That's it. Everything else is bullshit.
— Jerry Seinfeld
To write better copy, remember that you’re selling the reader on a better version of themselves.
- Source: common knowledge in conversion copywriting
The Rule of One for copywriting:
You have one reader. One big idea. One promise. And one offer.
Source: unknown person who is no longer alive, probably in advertising and direct response copywriting in the 1920’s.
“I have a theory that the moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. I have tried this experiment a thousand times and I have never been disappointed.
The more I look at a thing, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I want to se
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