The Danny Miranda Podcast

#230: David Perell [VIDEO] – Writing, Leverage, & Living With More Joy

May 19, 2022

01:38:50

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David Perell

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Focus on tasks that bring fulfillment for negotiating leverage in life.

Seek feedback for personal growth and enhance relationships.

Engage with plants and podcasts for sensitivity and human dynamics understanding.

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Living with Joy by Finding Enjoyment in the Process

It is important to find ways to live with more joy by enjoying the process of achieving your goals, even amidst challenges. A key insight is to focus on tasks that bring you fulfillment and align with your skills, enabling you to have negotiating leverage in various aspects of your life. By discovering what you naturally enjoy and excel at, you can add value to others while finding personal satisfaction.

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Introduction

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The Fun of Making Up Words

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The Importance of Finding Desires

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The People Who Fascinate You Often Disagree

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What Is Julian Chapiro Doing?

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How Can We Get Better at Learning?

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How Does Peter Teals Ideas About Monopoly Relate to Schools?

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Are You Building What Your 15 Year Old Self Really Needs?

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The Art of Conversation

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I've Never Learned Anything While Talking

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Shake It Off, by Taylor Swift

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The Inspiration Balloons Are Feeled in Your Body, Not in Your Mind

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I Think the Focus Is an Outer World

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The Triple, Triple, and Triple Plus Award

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How to Live With More Joy?

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You Have Plants at Your Apartment?

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The Importance of the Base Line

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Writing

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Editing Is Revision, but Creation Happens Inside the Body

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Why I Love Literature More Than Fiction

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You're Just Letting It Unfold When It's Supposed To

2min

David Perell is a writer and entrepreneur. He is the creator of the wildly successful Write of Passage – an online course that helps people accelerate their careers by writing online. He has amassed a following of over 300,000 people on Twitter alone.

In this conversation, we spoke about David's college years, why introspection is overrated, David's interesting writing habits, and why epiphanies are felt.

You can access this video on Spotify.

Topics:

(0:00) Intro

(0:48) Probation

(5:01) The first time David started to take himself seriously

(6:11) Find the leverage

(8:12) Bill Morningstar

(11:20) How to get confidence when you’re not qualified?

(12:25) Coining terms as a creator

(15:00) Mimetic theory

(19:33) How do you make sure what you want is what you really want?

(21:33) Why does David spend time with people he disagrees with?

(25:01) Knowledge workers should treat themselves as athletes

(27:13) Changing the education system

(39:31) Who does David admire today?

(43:01) Surrendering to the art of conversation

(44:29) Overcoming insecurities

(47:20) Injecting more of himself into his work

(48:34) “Epiphanies are felt”

(50:40) “Introspection is overrated”

(53:08) Why David grades his dad A+++

(56:50) How do we live with more joy?

(1:00:23) How much did David turn to the internet as a kid?

(1:02:45) Annual Review

(1:03:41) Connection between plants vs. podcasts

(1:06:28) How to judge improvement on creative work on week-to-week

(1:07:41) The unexpected benefit of writing

(1:12:01) Does David have any trouble sleeping?

(1:13:39) David’s weird writing habits

(1:20:40) How has David gotten less self-loathing?

(1:22:51) Balaji NYT/BTC/CCP framing

(1:26:41) Why are we so attracted to the current?

(1:30:23) Why is David a long-term thinker?

(1:31:11) Web3 vs. Bitcoiners

(1:32:51) Lessons from Robert Moses

(1:36:33) Any fiction?

(1:38:00) Book deal?

Resources Mentioned

• First David Perell appearance on The Danny Miranda Podcast 070 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCS3Qyh7LKs

• Kevin Kelly’s 103 Bits of Advice – https://kk.org/thetechnium/103-bits-of-advice-i-wish-i-had-known/

• Austin Scholar – https://austinscholar.substack.com/

• Jack Butcher days vs. decades – https://twitter.com/jackbutcher/status/1485609022799716353

David's Links Twitter – https://twitter.com/david_perell

Write of Passage – https://writeofpassage.school/

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The Danny Miranda Podcast

#230: David Perell [VIDEO] – Writing, Leverage, & Living With More Joy

Episode guests

Podcast summary created with Snipd AI

Quick takeaways

Deep dives

Living with Joy by Finding Enjoyment in the Process

Growing by Seeking Feedback and Adapting

Using Plants and Podcasting to Learn Sensitivity and Perceptiveness

Recognizing the Importance of Baselines in Interactions and Growth

The Importance of Long-Term Thinking and Deep Focus in Writing

Navigating Through the Currents of Information and Cultivating a Mission-Driven Approach

You Need Confidence Before You Start Things

How Can We Get Better At Learning?

Whose Lives Do You Envy to Day?

The Importance of Finding Desires

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#230: David Perell [VIDEO] – Writing, Leverage, & Living With More Joy

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Deep dives

Living with Joy by Finding Enjoyment in the Process

Growing by Seeking Feedback and Adapting

Using Plants and Podcasting to Learn Sensitivity and Perceptiveness

Recognizing the Importance of Baselines in Interactions and Growth

The Importance of Long-Term Thinking and Deep Focus in Writing

Navigating Through the Currents of Information and Cultivating a Mission-Driven Approach

You Need Confidence Before You Start Things

How Can We Get Better At Learning?

Whose Lives Do You Envy to Day?

The Importance of Finding Desires

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