From one piece 10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) 16 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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the average athlete who's taking a few million dollars more to move his wife and kids from one family, one city that they loves him and that he loves to some strange place where everybody's going to be unhappy.
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You should only start a book you believe is going to be great, whatever it turns out to be.Their words
And only do it if it's great. If you only do it, it's it's a long-term strategy. I mean, it's not that I think all my books are great. I don't write them, though, unless I think they're going to be great.
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When you're in any kind of creative thing, there is this benefit to not just following the financial incentives and and not trying to kind of like milk every last penny out of it. And to creating scarcity, not just for the sake of the scarcity, but for the sake of the quality.
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somehow if you take your deadlines seriously, that's the key. You take the deadlines deadly seriously and you just refuse to violate them. Um then you're serious when you establish them and you your mind just finishes when it needs to finish.
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I just don't know where this is going. I don't know what the end is. When I don't know what the end is, I don't know what the beginning is. And it's that simple.
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The aim of a story is to be so complete that once it has been told there is nothing left to say.Their words
I want to give something that's good and pure and true and is like is like the thing that will once it's said there's nothing else to say. It's like done.
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You are gathering before you make judgments. You're open to learning things. You're trying to be the world's best student. You want people to want to teach you.
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You don't call uninformed. You call knowing as much as there is to know and then you start picking the brains of people who might know more and have not said.
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So this is a filter. Like if I'm talking to you, it takes effort to put it down on the page. I don't record anything that I've filtered it. It's interesting enough to me that it belongs on the page.
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The audience is waiting for you to get through this thing because they know nothing's going to happen. Like whatever's on that page, that's what's going to happen.
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The best sign that a subject is worth writing about is that you are interested in it and nobody else is.Their words
And I've learned just to not even talk about it cuz it kills my interest to watch it kill their interest. But I know why I'm interested and why it's important and I'm not I'm not relying on the world telling me it's important.
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I see no evidence that I'm dragging people along with me. I feel like each each book feels like another startup and that I've got to go out and make it happen almost as if I've not written one.
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That's a really intelligent way place to land because what they will do is woo you with their enthusiasm and then take you down a rabbit hole where you will spend years of your life and have nothing to show.
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An audience is not buying the subject you cover; it is buying your interest in the subject.Their words
They learn to trust you that if you're interested, they'll be interested. That what in fact what they're buying into is not the subject, but your interest in the subject.
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In fact, if most journalists started there, they'd be accused of heography
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you grab the listener like I try to grab a reader and get them to the state of mind where they'll let you take them anywhere uh and teach them about stuff that they don't even know they want to learn about.