I was not a good kid. I was rebellious, and so we had this little reading programme called s r a,. It was a box of reading material that was supposed to go. From like the third grade to the eighth grade, i got done with the whole thing. My father brought me over to the encyclopaedia britannica. He took out the first volume, handed it to me and said, reading this, you did it all. That happened to be in grade school. And that event was what radicalized me. What if you could have a place where those kids who were obsessive, who are enthusiastic, who treat knowledge not as some british thing that
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