“Traveling over the oceans and spending time overseas demands a bit of thought and discipline. Experience helps—you only want to forget key things once. Never is better, but I promise you the pain of omission makes the teaching permanent. I want to share the basics. I don’t have a cure for jet lag or stock in any of the companies I recommend, but I have ideas that work.”
– Dan John, Attempts
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“Don’t waste your time until you have something to say…. nothing to say other to discuss his or her level of ignorance… but you don’t have wisdom to impart.”
⁃ Howard Marks, How I Write Podcast, 21/02/24
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Howard Marks is saying don’t give advice until you’ve been doing something for decades.
Listen to the advice of people who have actual experience.
Remind yourself that you are in fact not an expert.
I can still share my experiences.
But my experience is not extensive.
Acknowledge that.
Be humble, keep writing, but give it ten years before you offer any definitive writing advice.
I am talking to myself here.
I write my ideas.
Unlike Dan John, I can’t say for sure that they work.
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