Creating a Writing Habit: Lessons and Habits of Writers

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The key to creating a writing habit is to eliminate the decisions holding you back from writing. 95% of the barriers to writing have nothing to do with writing itself. By figuring out the best time of day for productivity, choosing a publishing platform, and making trivial decisions, ideas can flow easily. It's important to start with something and publish it, then iterate and improve from there. Most people delay hitting publish, waiting for the perfect moment which never comes. The advice is to publish before feeling ready and iterate day by day, realizing later that the delay was unnecessary.

In this week’s episode, Patrick Donley (@JPatrickDonley) sits down with Dickie Bush, a former BlackRock portfolio manager turned digital entrepreneur. You’ll learn the secrets to Dickie’s success in football, on Wall Street, online as a writer and content creator, and even how he lost 100 pounds after his football career at Princeton ended.

Dickie co-founded Ship30For30, a cohort-based course which has helped over 10,000 students start writing.

He’s a former professional online gamer and captain of the Princeton football team who has gone on to build a successful career on Wall Street and more recently, as a digital entrepreneur.

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:

00:00 - Intro.

02:43 - How video games taught him more than his Ivy League degree about business.

05:45 - What “obsession based” learning is.

07:53 - What his experience at BlackRock was like and why he left.

10:49 - When you should consider leaving a job.

11:36 - How he got started with a blog synthesizing content he was already listening to.

19:46 - What his early days on Twitter were like.

30:53 - How he made $10,000 as a ghostwriter.

36:59 - What the impetus of Ship30For30 was and how he developed the program.

40:36 - How he eliminated his scarcity mindset and improved his relationship with money.

44:18 - Why you should create a “memory dividend” fund with your money.

53:47 - Why you need to save the first $100,000 in cash before you start investing.

57:40 - Why he spent $68,000 on a mastermind group.

63:31 - How he lost 100 pounds and what nutrition system worked best.

68:04 - What keeps people from writing and a tool to generate topics to write about.

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