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How I Built This with Guy Raz

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How Did You Get the Confidence to Start Writing Your Own Book?

I think what gave me that confidence was working at a magazine that reviewed 400 books every two weeks. And I would think, you know, I'm not that good of a writer, but 400 of these things did come out in the last two weeks. So maybe, yeah, and a lot of them weren't that good, nothing personal. But the thing about books that aren't that good is you can see the strings of the puppets a little easier.

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