I Spent 50 Hours With 20 Master Writers

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  • Опубликовано: 21 ноя 2024

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  • @DavidPerellChannel
    @DavidPerellChannel  10 месяцев назад +14

    I've interviewed 20 of the world's top writers over the past six months.
    Here are the best lessons I've learned...
    1. Tim Ferriss: Have a low bar for inputs, but a high bar for outputs.
    When Tim was writing The 4-Hour Work Week, his only rule for himself was to "write two crappy pages per day." That kept him at the keyboard on a daily basis. But his low bar for writing came with an exceptionally high bar for what he actually shared in public.
    2. Kevin Kelly: Don't aim to be the best. Be the only.
    His writing is driven by the obsessive and unrestrained pursuit of his own curiosities. Whenever I'm with him, I get the sense that he's always fooling around and is somehow so aligned with his work that productive writing can't help but seep out of him. The output isn't forced though. He says: “Productivity is often a distraction. Don't aim for better ways to get through your tasks as quickly as possible. Instead, look for writing projects that you never want to stop doing.”
    3. Cultural Tutor: If it was published in the past 50 years, don’t read it.
    The problem with new books isn't that they're bad. The problem is that everybody else is reading them, which doesn't give you much edge as a writer.
    4. Marc Andreessen: Use a barbell approach to consume information.
    His method directly contradicts the Cultural Tutor's. He focuses on what's happening right now while also reading a lot of timeless material that was published 10+ years ago. The things he reads are either timely or timeless, with almost nothing in between.
    5. Riva Tez: Writing is painting with words.
    Passion makes poets out of all of us. You don't need a thesaurus if you write with enough heart. When you care about what you're saying, the language comes out fresh. The formal and logical aspects of your writing need not overpower the soul and poetry.
    6. Steven Pressfield: Care for the craft of writing.
    Steven had tried to send me a copy of his new book, The Daily Pressfield, but for a hodgepodge of reasons, I never received it. Insisting that I read it before recording the interview, he drove an hour each way to hand-deliver his book to me, introduce himself for 20 seconds, drive home, and drive right back the next day. He sent a digital copy, and he wouldn't use a day-of shipping service because it was "too important."
    7. Tyler Cowen + Alex Tabarrok: The joy they bring to their work.
    You get the sense that they're drawing from a bottomless well of curiosity because they've found the work they're called to be doing. 20 years into their partnership, they still laugh like childhood best friends when they're together.
    8. Ava Huang: Reaching Beyond Consensus
    To reach beyond consensus is to write something in a fresh and novel way that’s surprising and memorable. And it takes work. The ideas that initially come to mind for you when you're creating won't usually be the best ones, so dig and dig until you find something that surprises you as the writer, and in turn, surprises your reader too.

  • @aliabdaal
    @aliabdaal 10 месяцев назад +30

    This is so good!

  • @zorro7148
    @zorro7148 8 месяцев назад +10

    I actually struggle to understand how this content is available to us for free. Your work is greatly appreciated. Thank you, David.

  • @DeconTheMonkey
    @DeconTheMonkey 10 месяцев назад +9

    “Don’t aim to be the best. Be the only.” This idea just makes sense and liberates and empowers!

  • @joryiansmith
    @joryiansmith 10 месяцев назад +8

    "You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything." - Henry David Thoreau

    • @joryiansmith
      @joryiansmith 10 месяцев назад +1

      "I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful." - Shania Twain

    • @andreaschneider6202
      @andreaschneider6202 8 месяцев назад +1

      @joryiansmith I am the first one to agree. Thank you for your comment. Best wishes, Andrea S.

    • @andreaschneider6202
      @andreaschneider6202 8 месяцев назад

      @DavidPerellChannel David, it is no accident that you have the same middle name as the one and only Thoreau--you are a brilliant writer and a unique, cherished individual🙇🏻‍♀ Thank you for all your work🙏🏻 Have a blessed day, Andrea S.

  • @tobitotheworld4805
    @tobitotheworld4805 10 месяцев назад +2

    "let everything happen to you. Beauty or terror" - Rainer Maria Rilke

  • @aodhanpmoran
    @aodhanpmoran 10 месяцев назад +4

    Deserves at least 100x the views. It'll come mate, keep it up. Standards are so high.

  • @mlamulimbambochannel
    @mlamulimbambochannel 12 часов назад

    I love the Culture Tutor idea of reading stuff that is more than 50 years old and trusting in the wisdom of father time. I naturally gravitate to history but I had not realised that it is one of the main reasons why I tend to see the world differently than most of my peers. Thank you for this epiphany.
    History does not repeat itself, but man consistently repeats himself. Learning the patterns of the past, enable us to shape the future of our destinies...

  • @littleripper312
    @littleripper312 2 дня назад

    Tim Ferris's do less than you think you can do was the solution that worked for me. I kept thinking I needed to from 0 to 100 or even 80 and I'd burnout after a few weeks. When I start with 10 min and build from there it works. Also if you start burning out you can revert back to 10min just to keep the habit and momentum.

  • @mlamulimbambochannel
    @mlamulimbambochannel 11 часов назад

    Archegos is such a gem. It is how I have been building my work but this framework gives it structure. thank you.

  • @trelium888
    @trelium888 9 дней назад +1

    Αρχηγός! ❤ Thank you so much for this episode it is fantastic and gives me so much inspiration to invent things and write. This is only the second episode I watch on your channel but after this I am looking forward to listening to your podcasts with other writers. I will share with my friends! Congrats and keep going, αρχηγέ!

  • @masonfuerst
    @masonfuerst 10 месяцев назад +3

    Awesome video David. Thanks for creating this channel and sharing these episodes. I've learned a ton, and have only been watching them for the last few days. So to say I'm hooked is an understatement. Big fan of your work, keep it up.

  • @theravenswritingdesk
    @theravenswritingdesk 10 месяцев назад +1

    Excellent work, thank you for reminding me that whatever adjective I put before "writer"-small, up-and-coming, unexperienced, sporadic-that it doesn't detract from the fact that I am a writer with a God given gift for the craft. Thank you for everything you do, and I look forward to the next eight lessons.

  • @meenakshi6344
    @meenakshi6344 10 месяцев назад +3

    I loved this video. You curated your favourite excerpts from the interviews, and you added your thoughts and feelings to them. It was like reading a heavily annotated book. Enriching.

  • @talialavor8411
    @talialavor8411 9 месяцев назад +2

    Im absolutely enthralled with this channel, the guests and David. Everything about it is beautiful. The sound quality, the people, the unique perspectives, the studio, and David's calm and very present energy. Just nothing like it! You are the one!

  • @HeathHolme
    @HeathHolme 9 месяцев назад +2

    Came here and learned plenty. Thanks for sharing 🙂

  • @jpjordan90
    @jpjordan90 Месяц назад

    46:49 Read that faucet idea in Ann Patchett's book on writing.
    Another analogy she uses is learning a musical instrument.
    You can't expect to sit down one day and be able to play like Yo Yo Ma.
    It takes continuous, repetitive, dedicated time and effort to practice and hone the craft.

  • @HeyWilliamSalas
    @HeyWilliamSalas 10 месяцев назад +1

    Damn this podcast is so good. So many nuggets every single time! Great format, you added so much context.

  • @madihamughees2731
    @madihamughees2731 9 месяцев назад +1

    There's sincerity and passion in your work. You are making a difference for sure. Thank you

  • @Ankur_explores
    @Ankur_explores 9 месяцев назад +2

    Great episode David!🎉

  • @robleon
    @robleon 9 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks for sharing your takeaways. I've been following along and our lists are pretty close! ✌🏻

  • @iLoveWriting365
    @iLoveWriting365 10 месяцев назад +1

    Excited for this!

  • @riccardocecco
    @riccardocecco 10 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks for your work David :) your energy tells a lot about you. I can feel you're really loving what you're doing and you deserve all the best. The podcast is incredible and you're one of the best interviewers in my opinion. And I watch a ton of different podcasts!! Keep going man 💪

  • @mlamulimbambochannel
    @mlamulimbambochannel 11 часов назад

    The magic might just be in one core idea, quality over quantity. All the best on this new direction for your work.

  • @MoussaOuedraogo-ke6qn
    @MoussaOuedraogo-ke6qn Месяц назад

    Hey David! I really enjoyed listening to this your podcast. Thank you for sharing and motivating budding writers!👍

  • @eternalincantation
    @eternalincantation 9 месяцев назад +1

    thank you! very good one!

  • @michaelxortega
    @michaelxortega 6 месяцев назад

    Incredibly valuable, I’m only 9 minutes in and I can tell how wonderfully dense this episode is. Thank you 🙏🏽

  • @jessehepburn
    @jessehepburn 8 месяцев назад +1

    Love seeing your journey and very thankful for you sharing these takeaways with us.

  • @Thought_it_up
    @Thought_it_up 9 месяцев назад

    Great implementation similar to Ferris. Core Ideas summary crushed it.

  • @MichaelKilmanAuthor
    @MichaelKilmanAuthor 22 дня назад

    Just found your podcast and I really appreciate it. If you ever want to talk to an anthropologist about worldbuilding me and/or my cowriter would be happy to chat.

  • @RachelsPortal
    @RachelsPortal День назад

    Hi, I subscribed today, never saw your channel before.
    I am planning my very first novel at age 52 and have been feeling very late in the game. Plus English is not my first language, thus feeling very inadequate. This video has been a life changing eye opener. Thank you! I've been hopping between story ideas and thinking of just writing a silly book as take one, in order to just learn the craft.
    My take away from today is that I have to find the book ONLY I can write, the subject matter that I specifically am intetested in and uniquely qualified for. I know what to write now - Christians, nephelim, and the monster stories that is consumed by women in the thousands (werewolf romance). Women dive into the world of demonology and find their safe place there, and God cries for His precious WOMBmen that are getting impregnated with witchcraft seeds. Hope that makes sense. You changed my life today, and my book in turn, will change other people's lives. If each of us just did what God placed in our hearts, this world would look different.

  • @jaredcartermusic
    @jaredcartermusic 10 месяцев назад

    Epic. 👏

  • @ozzie8821
    @ozzie8821 Месяц назад

    Fabulous work!!👍👍👍👍😎

  • @jessehepburn
    @jessehepburn 8 месяцев назад

    If you like Reagan’s speeches maybe you could interview his speech writer- Peter Robinson at the Hoover Institute

  • @elliegale1845
    @elliegale1845 13 дней назад

    I love the Riva advice but it's not very practical for most people to cancel plans like that! It is possible to do in your mind though, you can allow yourself to keep thinking of something that you're excited about and not stop

  • @tobitotheworld4805
    @tobitotheworld4805 10 месяцев назад

    any chance we can get seth godin on the show?

  • @eugeniocg3079
    @eugeniocg3079 9 месяцев назад

    GOAT

  • @cesarhernandez-wv8oj
    @cesarhernandez-wv8oj 4 месяца назад

    what is quality bar?

  • @leejackson1512
    @leejackson1512 7 месяцев назад

    I enjoyed most of those interviews and learned something from them. But I have to ask: why would I listen to anyone who espouses the notion of paying no attention to works produced within the past fifty years? The arrogance of a writer who makes such a statement while implying that we should pay attention to his uttering is immense. His rationale is that if we read more current authors, then we are going to be (essentially) regurgitating that which is already written. Interestingly, he reserves to himself the judgement to distinguish between those things that are current but still worth writing about while the rest of us are relegated to the nether regions of less than analytical thought. I zoomed right past him.