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#329: Jason Fried — How to Live Life on Your Own Terms

The Tim Ferriss Show

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How to Write a Good Book, by Richard Alanham

i had the great good fortune of taking a class in college with john mac fee, who is a senior writer of the new yorker. And i remember when he handed back the first writing assignment, and there was more red ink on the page. It became so clear how fuzzy so much of my thinking was. tom petty has such a wonderful efficiency in his story telling, in his lyrics. He paints these really broad pictures with four or five words pr per phrase. I think youd be fascinated by it from a structural standpoint, really fascinating. You know, something that i would also encourage people to do is to read tom petty lyrics.

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