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To recap on topic choice:
- Read books and consume content that is different from what is often talked about in your niche or main areas of interest
- Find an idea (or two) that you feel compelled to take a lot of notes on
- Have a list of high-performing YouTube titles from accounts in your niche that you can use as angles for those ideas
- That way, you bri
Dan Koe • Full Guide: How I Write About Deep Ideas & Still Go Viral
switching to a "dumb" phone made me feel pretty dang smart
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To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. - Mary Oliver
I never had any ambitions to be a novelist. I just had this strong desire to write a novel. No concrete image of what I wanted to write about, just the conviction that if I wrote it now I could come up with something that I’d find convincing. When I thought about sitting down at my desk at home and setting out to write I realized I didn’t even own
... See moreHaruki Murakami • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Advice for introducing yourself: Mention three things about yourself that people can hook onto (e.g. what you do, what you’re passionate about, where you come from) — this way, you’re increasing the surface area they have to find a point of resonance/connection.
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The poet and Pulitzer Prize winner Mary Oliver with some suggestions for your one precious life:
“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”
“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”
