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John Green Wants You to Pay Attention to Your Attention

WorkLife with Adam Grant

CHAPTER

Kill Your Darlings

John Green: I've had a pep heave as long as i can remember when editors tell me, you have to kill your darlings ys. My reaction has always been, darlings are why you write. What i do is i save them, and i find a home for them in a future book or article. He says we're simultaneously too powerful and not powerful enough. And living with that, living with that paradox, i is difficult for me at times - which is why i wrote about it.

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