Writer's block isn't real. It's simply performance anxiety… - Dickie Bush

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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.

Dickie Bush

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Dickie Bush, a former BlackRock hedge fund trader and Princeton graduate, became a leading figure in online writing and digital entrepreneurship. He co-founded Ship 30 for 30 with Nicolas Cole, a popular 30-day writing program that has served over 10,000 participants, and runs the Premium Ghostwriting Academy while sharing insights on audience building and atomic essays through his Substack and X.

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The two enemies of creativity:

Money worries and other people's drama.

Corollary: the most creative people seek financial security and give no mental bandwidth to other people's bullshit.

You’re stuck because every time your mind almost has the space to come up with a novel idea, you interrupt it by checking your phone.

Super subtle, but asking people “how’s your day going?” is 100x better than asking “how are you?”

Makes it easy for them to answer because not everyone knows how they’re doing, but everyone knows how their day is going.

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