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How to develop discipline: A conversation with Ryan Holiday

The Colin and Samir Show

CHAPTER

The Business of Creativity

With Courage is Gone, I wanted to sell as many of my books directly to the audience as possible. So like you can still order it from everywhere else, but if you want to buy it from me, you buying it from me and I'll sign it. And then one of the tweaks I made actually starting with the first book in this series is like I opened a bookstore in 2020, I guess 2021. It was definitely a big bet on myself,. But to me, it was consistent with the idea that I want to control distribution channels as much as possible.

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