Dickie Bush Quotes

One 21st-century superpower:

Learning to write fast.

If there is no friction between an idea in your head and a well-fleshed-out 200-word paragraph explaining it, you can be unstoppable.

The easiest way to get ahead in life is to start writing.

Every day. 90 focused minutes. Taking one idea that’s in your head and putting it out into the world.

Waking up the next day and doing it again.

Staying committed even if growth is slow. Looking back 12 months later and seeing a massive library that will pay you dividends for years.

Add this to the many reasons to have a daily writing habit:

• Clarifies your thinking
• Builds a library of your best ideas
• Attracts new opportunities to you
• Helps you become more articulate
• Introduces you to like-minded people
• Strengthens your consistency muscle

Writing every day is truly the habit with the highest return in my life.

Your first 50 reps of anything will suck.

But overcoming the fear of looking foolish as a beginner & embracing the monotony of practice is the only growth hack you need.

One of the most underrated reasons for starting a business is it helps you realize you are the bottleneck to growth

Inconvenient truth: you can't expect growth if you aren't showing up every day.

Time, Energy, and Attention are the scarcest commodities.

Measure twice, cut once leads to too much measuring and not enough cutting.

Start cutting and measure as you go.

Start treating your writing like a startup.

• Ship an MVP
• Talk to users
• Analyze data
• Prioritize distribution
• Solve specific problems
• Focus on reader experience
• Say something different, not better

Lean Writing is the key to writing in the digital age.

Heuristics for reading well:

• Read to write - learn by creating, not consuming.

• Read actively - underline, highlight, and question.

• Read the classics - read one Lindy book for every other.

• Read broadly - nonfiction, fiction, poetry, essays, blogs, tweets.

Reminder to self: be aggressively patient.

Execute relentlessly in the short-term. But zoom out to let those efforts compound.

Impatience with actions. Patience with results.

Leverage and compounding are life-saving concepts.

The goal: understand them so well that you become physically ill when they're not working for you.

If you're broke you should not follow your passion unless your passion is becoming not broke.

In a world of information overload, writing is the best clarity filter.

Consistency > Intensity

• Long-term results come from consistency, then intensity.
• To run a marathon, start by running a mile every day.
• To write a book, start by writing 500 words every day.

To win long-term, start with consistency, then build the intensity.