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Jan. 29, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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How to Write a Great Book
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People say, well, I want to write a book!
I want to write a book!
Well, everybody knows that people haven't written the book because they're afraid of failure.
But what's the worst-case scenario with failure?
You don't get a viable book.
Or whatever.
Nobody cares.
You can't sell it or whatever, right?
Well, you've gained a lot of skills writing the book.
You've got the pride of having written a book.
The discipline to have finished it, you can say, I wrote a book.
You can say that in interviews.
Maybe that helps you in an interview.
You've got the discipline to write a book.
But let's say you end up with a book.
It doesn't go anywhere.
You don't have a viable book.
But if you don't write the book, you don't have a viable book either.
All trying improves your odds of success.
Even anything.
Any kind of trying.
Because if you don't try, you have 100% failure.
And let's say you have a 95% failure if you try.
You're up infinitely higher.
You're up from 0% to 5%.
It's not a 5% increase.
It's infinitely higher.
It's infinitely higher.
In the same way that zero meals a day and one meal a day are the difference between life and death.
Zero to anything is infinitely higher.
Zero to anything is infinitely higher.
So you are going to fail forever if you don't even try.
And if you don't try, it doesn't matter fundamentally whether it works or not.
What matters is that you try and complete it.
Denise says, my boss came into the lab today and told me to check our funding because all DEI funding is frozen right now, meaning any grants under diversity supplements or anything are cut right now, which is wild.
I figured they would not renew, but to cut it outright is definitely a statement, LOL.
the West was refashioned in the 1960s when it went from a meritocracy, equality of opportunity, to a politocracy, a pullocracy.
The aristocracy of pull, which went to equality of outcome.
So, the West, as it was conceived of and ran for ever and ever, thousands of years, was subverted and replaced in the 1960s when equality of outcome, rather than equality of opportunity, became the law of the land.
America has not been America for decades, at least relative to its original vision.
All right.
Sometimes I have a hard time having said passion in my own life.
It's been rapidly growing, however.
I'm 28, and I've always had a drive to just do random cool things, honestly.
What the hell are random cool things?
I don't know what that means.
I'd say most people, thanks, Denise, I'd say most people don't know what it means to get what they want.
Even if they get too successful, they have a buyer's remorse because they didn't know.
What it meant to be what they said they wanted to be.
Oh yeah, it's just like a lot of the YouTubers, I'm burnt out, man, in this big argument about whether live streaming is hard work or not.
Well, nothing's hard work if you prepare enough.
I was preparing for live streaming for decades, before.
The younger generation varies automatically.
Honestly, it varies depending on urban, suburban, rural.
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