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Level 5: Specificity Is The Secret
Nicolas Cole • The Art and Business of Online Writing: How to Beat the Game of Capturing and Keeping Attention
“What question are you trying to answer?”
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Focus on the first paragraph. If you are going to change one sentence, change this. Here’s a trick: read the sentence, open another document, and rewrite the sentence, or the sense of the sentence, from memory.
Joe Smith • The Optimized Marketer: Writing with AI: Future-proof Your Talent and Position Your Business for a World Transformed by AI (The Optimized Self)
Progressive Summarization is the technique I teach to distill notes down to their most important points.
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
Try finding the simplest, most elegant way to put a point across, with the least amount of information.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Confusing: If something’s confusing, re-write it
Anthony Pompliano • Writing for Leverage, Teenage Billionaires, The Problem with Mainstream Media, and More - David Perell on Off the Chain, Hosted By Anthony Pompliano • Podcast Notes
– Clarity Are your ideas expressed in simple, clear, memorable English?
Tim Prizeman • The Thought Leadership Manual
“One of the most underrated career skills that isn’t really taught anywhere is editing your own writing.
Great writing is actually re-writing. Simplifying paragraphs. Clarifying key points. Double-checking for typos.
Good writing will impress in any job.”
Great writing is actually re-writing. Simplifying paragraphs. Clarifying key points. Double-checking for typos.
Good writing will impress in any job.”