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S7, Ep2 How to Fail: Malcolm Gladwell

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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The Importance of Passion in Writing

I was 20 when I first applied for advertising jobs and got rejected from every single one. My dad used to say, in order to lower my expectations appropriately, he's like, be prepared for the fact that you might be unemployed upon graduation. So at this point, so unforced. It would be different if I thought I wrote all too much. The weird thing about writing books is that you spend only a small portion of the time when you're writing a book writing. If I could order the world the way I wanted, I would write way more. But I don't actually write much at all.

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