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#427: Michael Lewis — Inside the Mind of the Iconic Writer

The Tim Ferriss Show

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How Did You Learn From Michael Kinsley?

i remember in a seminar atPrinceton, though it wasn't freshman. i think what happens with writers who come up in a conventional way is they get treated too politely. And so they don't hear a really withering critique of their work. michael kinsley could not help himself. He delivered most withering critiques of your work. It was all the preposterous things that you naturally tended do when you're putting, you know, words on paper,. he identified all of them as asvices, and stopped you from them. We should be very efficient conversationalists, because we do it all the time. But we aren't because we don't get feed back,...

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