Dickie Bush Quotes

I'm convinced prolific writing comes down to one habit:

Effortless and constant capturing of ideas.

Every writer I look up to talks about how little they rely on their mind to "remember" ideas.

So they set up inboxes to capture ideas everywhere, then review them later.

Millions of dollars are spent on diets.

Very few dollars on information diets.

• Sugar leads to diabetes of the body.
• The internet leads to diabetes of the brain.
• Glucose monitors help manage our food diet.

We need something similar to monitor our information diet.

How to successfully learn nothing:

• Ignore the fundamentals.
• Study the latest tips and tricks.
• Don't waste your time reading.
• Build shallow, broad knowledge.
• Listen to all the newest books that come out.
• Become a master of planning but skip execution.

You’re stuck because you dramatically underestimate the intensity required to grow.

The operating system for the 21st-century internet entrepreneur:

1. Start sharing ideas
2. Attract like-minded people
3. Figure out their problems
4. Build products to solve their problems
5. Extract proof you've solved their problem
6. Document/share your process along the way

5 things worth spending money on:

1. Speed
2. Education
3. Convenience
4. Performance
5. Memory Dividends

If it doesn’t fall into one of these categories, it does not produce a positive return.

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 people I most admire faced a disgusting & treacherous amount of exceptionally boring work on the way to achieving their ultimate goals. And they tackled it one day at a time.

It has quite literally never been a better time in human history to make a living as a writer

Insane world we get to live in now

Niches don't mean small markets.

Niches mean less competition.

Reasons to tweet:

1. Refine ideas -> every essay I write starts as a tweet. 280-characters is the ultimate creative restraint.

2. Create a learning flywheel -> learn, share, discuss, repeat.

3. Attract like-minded people -> show people I see the world the same way they do.

The world is rigged in favor of those who believe it is rigged in their favor.

Picture a Venn diagram:

Left circle: things people struggle to do.

Right circle: things people don't regret doing.

Overlap: things you should do more often.

I could talk for ages about how every single good thing in my life from the past 5 years came from writing every day.

I've found that anxiety is a signal for action.

Rather than letting it hunt you down, probe deeper into these feelings. Find what is uncertain or what you’re failing to communicate.

Take control over the parts you can, and DO SOMETHING.