I hate the word, but part of my brand is that i tell people to be themselves and authentic. I recommend check list prescriptions, really tactical things. If you're doing exactly what i teach you, you're doing it wrong. No tactics can get you started. But you need to dive into the depths of principles. What a good student is not somebody who just does what i say. It's like stephan curry. You dont if you're watching him play basketball. He’s not out there thinking, ok, now to go behind the back, then through the legs, then do a little finger roll into the ske ball hoop. The prom is a bunch of experts critique
David Perell is prolific writer and online educator, who runs a writing school called “Write of Passage”. David also hosts the “The North Star Podcast” featuring interviews with writers, athletes, and entrepreneurs. Important Links:
Show Notes:
- Origins of “Write of Passage”
- Writing leads to thinking
- David’s ever expanding portfolio
- Live the life that you teach
- Applying lessons from Disneyland to a writing course
- Four Seasons of writing education
- Ana’s success with David’s course
- Writing as a career transition
- Average course cohort age
- Building a personal monopoly
- Advice for an aspiring creator
- Dive into the work of the people you admire
- Managing fear of creating in public
- The network age
- Building a product for high-schoolers
- Finding your tribe on the internet
- Going against the trend with long-form essays
- Checklists and prescriptions
- The cover band strategy for investing
- Building an internet native education system
- Schools stifling creativity
- The Never-Ending Now
Books Mentioned:
- Zero to One; by Peter Thiel
- One Summer: America, 1927; by Bill Bryson
- The Status Game; by Will Storr
- Invest Like the Best; by Jim O'Shaughnessy