Focus on the process and you’ll end up with the best results

I’m constantly in doubt about pretty much everything.

Steven Johnson talks with the Wired co-founder and bestselling technology theorist about writing in public and strange power of music on infinite loop.

Writing allows you to explore who you are. It’s a way to revisit the past, connect with the present, and draw a map for the future.

Determined to become the ‘hardest man alive,’ David Goggins is the only member of the U.S. Armed Forces to have completed Navy SEAL Training, the U.S. Army Ranger and Air Force tactical air controller training. Completing over 50 endurance races, Goggins has lived through the unthinkable to strengthen his mind and body. David Goggins reveals his belief in the dark power of suffering to transform in this episode of Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu.

Most of the bloggers are so pre-occupied in generating content that their reading habits goes for a toss. How many books, papers or Articles have you read in last one month? I guess many people will say, my job is to generate content, not spending time on reading articles. Some might say, I read the articles when I go for my link creation spree with commenting on other blogs.

Every writer wishes they could write more. I’ve spoken to some writers who think 1,000 words a day is amazing, and others who think it’s average. To take part in NaNoWriMo, you need to write 1,633 words per day. My record is 14,000 words in a day.

You have to taste the BERRIES. There is such an incredible conversation waiting to happen around breaking outside of your comfort zone and breaking down the boundaries that are holding you back. So many of you have drawn a line in the sand as to what you can and cannot do. But the truth is, you don’t really know. You haven’t tasted the berries. You haven’t had the experience.

Anything worth doing brings a satisfaction that distraction never can. Don’t give into the resistance. Push through the difficulty. That’s where a joy that those who stop will never taste.

More hours in the day. Everyone wants that and yet it’s impossible to attain.

If you can’t be the best at something, is it even worth doing? It turns out, being “the best” is something we have 100% control over.

They called Feynman the “Great Explainer.”

Enough with the bullshit gurus. We’ve all seen it pop up in our daily digest, no matter how hard we’ve tried to purge it: and let’s face it, we’ve all clicked on it at least once. It’s the inevitable motivational article by some or other self-proclaimed “successful” writer or blogger, who is invariably never one of the great authors of our time, or even a middling one.

If you keep resisting the “creative you,” then you’ve got work to do.

The following 4 tips took me 3 years of writing to collect, but will only take you 2 minutes to learn. Your writing will be better forever.

Writing is absolutely essential to modern life. From news stories, social media posts, and art to politics, academics, and business, few other skills (if any) are as important or influential as the capacity to express oneself clearly, intelligently, and convincingly via the written word. It’s no wonder, then, that the search phrase “How do I become a better writer?” currently fetches more than 51,000,000 results on Google.

If you’re a writer, then there’s a strong chance you pay a lot of attention to getting your work published. And rightly so.

Keep your mental library topped up; use writing apps that won’t distract you and others tricks to help you consistently write awesome blog posts.

I know it SOUNDS like an exaggeration, obviously, but it’s true: I’ve written before about how much I hated office work, but because I couldn’t really think of anything I could do instead, I assumed my entire life would be spent doing something I hated, and feeling totally miserable as a result. I was a right little ray of sunshine, to be sure.

What’s a writing identity? “Come on, Emma,” you’d say, “YOU should know. You even have the word ‘identity’ in your name.” Indeed, I do; yet what I call writing identity and what you might mean by the expression could turn out not having a single letter in common. And it is a much bigger controversy than you may think.