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#106 Josh Kaufman: Maximizing Our Locus of Control

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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How to Write a Hydra - Part 1

The process of writing a book, how to write a hydra, is fiction. And i think a lot of ththe early steps are a formal acknowledgment of you are signing up to do something difficult and uncertain,. That's a very real possibility. So there are things that we can do, a to minimize uncertainty, to minimize risk, to maximize our locus of control. But then also, by recognizing it, you rob it quite a bit of its power.

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