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Episode 4: Ryan Holiday

The Tim Ferriss Show

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How to Become a Writer

The best advice i ever got, and i think it came from tucker, was that writers live interesting lives. Go do interesting things, experience the world and develop some sort of perspective or knowledge which you can pass along through your rightaing. And this is true for fiction or non fiction. You have to be able to communicate all these intangibles to the reader. If you haven't gone out and lived it and experienced it, you're at a distinct disadvantage when it comes to communicating those things. The say, you can fake it until you say something that's so obviously wrong that just everyone in that instance knows that you have no idea what you're talking about.

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