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#1108 Ryan Holiday On How To Get Rich Writing Books

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Do You Consider Yourself Author, Creator, Entrepreneur, or Something Else?

I like the idea of a creator and that's what I think I would tell someone to aspire to be as opposed to just picking one thing. Even the distinction between author-writer, to me, author tends to only be books. If I don't do the writing, if I'm not doing focus creative work in the written word, none of the other stuff happens. You have to have a core competency. To be in the professional MMA fighter, you have to have one facet of your game that you're the best at. The problem with being a creator is people think it's this kind of loose thing like, "Oh, I'm an artist"

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