
Episode 519: Peggy Orenstein
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How Do You Feel Comfortable as an Expert When You Get to the End?
When you get to the end of some of these other books, it feels like you're identified as an expert in these areas. But it also means that you're always thinking about the marketplace. You're always worried about whether things are going to sell. And that can erode some of the just pure joy that was the reason you got into doing this in the first place. So I felt like it helped me rethink and recapture some of that beauty of just being like, "The result of this really doesn't matter"
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