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Effortless: Greg McKeown

Wisdom From The Top with Guy Raz

CHAPTER

How to Write a Daily Column at a Student Paper

I've never been so prepared for such an assignment. You actually quit law school and went instead to BYU to pursue a degree in journalism. And you wrote 200 columns, like practice columns, even before you like pitched yourself as a columnist. It's almost true. I wrote 200 columns. But it was in partnership with one of the executive directors of the paper. So this was all agreed to. It would be a daily column. They were ready. The whole thing got canceled. Among the 10 people who read that article that day, Anna Wirven did. She's now your wife. And she's my wife.

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