i don't believe in writers block. I believe in idea bankruptcy. It's so intimidating to sit down with a blank piece of paper, like, it's so intimidatind go like, hay, here's an idea. So the first thing i tell people to do is always borrow someone's sound tract. Then out you can use that one as a goal for your next project. And all those health tracts are cools cause a lot of people want to lose way to get in shape. Is calld yo listen to my podcast? You know, i'll just make it easy by saying: "The other day we talked about three specificSoundTracts"
Jon Acuff is the New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including his Wall Street Journal #1 bestseller, Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done. He's an INC Magazine Top 100 Leadership speaker and has spoken to hundreds of thousands of people at conferences and companies around the world.
His latest book is Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking. In this conversation he talks about identifying overthinking, calling it what it really is (fear), and offering a simple plan to turn it from a super problem into a superpower.
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