WE’RE BACK! How to Write Well With Wait but Why and David Perell

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• Author: Brains
• Full Title: WE’RE BACK! How to Write Well With Wait but Why and David Perell
• URL: https://www.airr.io/episode/624d23643ed96a000f813546

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Speaker 1: water. It’s so easy. And then what I’ve been doing is taking the ones that are like really good and sort of editing them and putting them onto my blog. It’s it’s Speaker 0: it’s like the concept of speed running for me to overcome any procrastination. I just try to get the first crappy draft out of my system as super quick as possible and any time there’s any friction I just put to fill in later and I was blitzed through anything that would be fractious for me to think through. Then I have something, it’s a terrible first draft and that’s the whole point because it is so much easier to have something bad and iterate too good than it is to have something good from scratch because our brains are much better, biologically wired for looking at a bad thing and identifying the contrast, what would have made this bad thing a little bit better? And if you just start from (Time 0:00:55)review

Speaker 0: every sometimes. Speaker 3: Exactly, exactly. Yeah. Speaker 1: So I have this question because I think that like obviously like of the four of us, I’m the only one who doesn’t really have a personal blog, My blog are business related, but I want to start a personal blog, but also I’m like looking out into the world and I see all these other platforms, there’s Tiktok, there’s youtube, there’s twitter where it just seems easier to reach? Like a ridiculous number of people and I’m questioning myself like, am I dumb for wanting to start a blog as a way to influence other people and and share my ideas. So I’m curious like why do you guys write essays? Why do you blog instead of doing other things? Speaker 2: Well for me? And I’m gonna speak directly to your personal blog point. I think you write a personal blog to think better and to meet great people and when it (Time 0:05:13)review

Speaker 1: it just seems easier to reach? Like a ridiculous number of people and I’m questioning myself like, am I dumb for wanting to start a blog as a way to influence other people and and share my ideas. So I’m curious like why do you guys write essays? Why do you blog instead of doing other things? Speaker 2: Well for me? And I’m gonna speak directly to your personal blog point. I think you write a personal blog to think better and to meet great people and when it comes to why you should write writing, I’ve had a podcast, I do video, I am on, I’m working on a documentary right now. I’m in so many different creative mediums and there is no medium that helps you think better than the written word because somehow (Time 0:05:31)review

Speaker 0: it is if you were able to get all those people to show up in person, tim like David that speaks to the fact that there are two types of followers, you can either have a labor follower or a mind follower. So a labor follower, someone who’s following you because you’re doing work for them. You’re putting in the labor example is you’re creating a whole bunch of interesting stories, you’re like Buzzfeed, you’re just putting together a list tickles, you’re putting together summaries of breaking news stories. Those are labor followers because your pre digesting news for them, but then their mind followers, these are people who are preferentially attached to wanting to know tim’s perspective on something. And that is a way healthier type of followers. So when we’re writing blog posts, every (Time 0:10:52)review