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#1108 Ryan Holiday On How To Get Rich Writing Books

The Pomp Podcast

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The External Score Card Is Not Up to You

Epic T is one of the stoic philosophers says, if you only enter competitions where winning is up to you, you will always win. I've always been competitive and it's easy to be like, okay, I keep score by copy sold. But when you realize that a lot of shitty books sell a lot of copies, you realize that's not really such a good metric either. Like, am I getting better at the thing itself? And is it more integrated into my life as a person?"

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