Episode 7: Stephen Dubner, co-author of Freakonomics
The Tim Ferriss Show
How to Learn Writing From Great Writing
i think one bias or blind spot that a lot of people have is they try to pattern their success aft people who have been really successful, yes. And i learned this when i was studying writing. I didn't know exactly what kind of writing i wanted to do. We there was academic, be a professor, writing, journalism and so on. But if you read really bad stuff and you look at failures, e thing, there's a tremendous amount to be learned by ue. So first of all, we do try to celebrate failure to some degree in a in this new book, not failure or claw failure, but because, you know, it's an experiment, you need to
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