Dickie Bush Quotes

The best writing advice I've ever received:

1. Stop when you have something left to say.
2. Write a 100-word note to yourself where you left off.
3. Pick up with low friction and immediate momentum.

This could be applied to more than writing.

Writer's block isn't real.

It's simply performance anxiety.

You've built up a story in your head that:

• What you write needs to be perfect
• Everyone is going to judge your writing
• What you create needs to change the world

Quiet the stories.

Merely ship the work.

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

If you spent half as many hours taking action as you did thinking about taking action, you would be in a better spot

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.

If what you’re working on doesn’t feel like playing a video game, you’re working on the wrong thing.

I'm convinced the #1 skill for writers to build over the next 20 years is ghostwriting

As things trend from companies to individuals, your differentiator will be your ability to communicate and scale other people's messages online

Trait among the best performers: ruthless efficiency.

• Repeated task? Automate it.
• Not their strong suit? Delegate it.
• Not worth their time? Disregard it.
• Draining their energy? Remove it.

See yourself as a bridge.

Wherever you are, there are people to learn from and people to teach.

Be the bridge between these groups of people.

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.

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.

It's not Goals vs. Systems - it's both.

Set big goals.

But focus on creating the systems that make their achievement inevitable.

Sharing your ideas stands between you and the leverage of the internet.

Surround yourself with people who are rooting for you.

My simple definition of wealth:

Wealth is the ability to choose:
• How you spend your time
• Where you spend your time
• Who you spend your time with

The “number” and circumstances that enables this will be different for everyone.

But you should have an idea what it is.