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REPLAY: Derek Sivers On Life Advice, Writing and Entrepreneurship (BONUS EPISODE)

Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal

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Writing a Thousand Words a Day

I've been toying with the idea of writing a book, but I think I've fallen into this trap of considering it like a big deal with a big B and a big D. So actually a couple of days ago, I sort of made a commitment to myself and I posted about this in my email newsletter that I was going to write a thousand words every day. It takes me 20 minutes just at an iPad or at a computer to just kind of type away. And then a thousand words comes out. That is so much easier than thinking I need to go write a 300 page book. This is going to take a long time.

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