The foundation of Ship 30 for 30 is the Atomic Essay.
• One idea
• Under 200 words
• Fits in one iPhone screenshot
This eliminates any friction to publishing ideas online.
And without that friction, momentum is inevitable.
In the last 60 days, I've helped 253 people build an online writing habit.
Here are 10 lessons they've taught me in behavior change, human psychology, and writing online.
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The foundation of Ship 30 for 30 is the Atomic Essay.
• One idea
• Under 200 words
• Fits in one iPhone screenshot
This eliminates any friction to publishing ideas online.
And without that friction, momentum is inevitable.
"Write something every day" is hard.
There are too many choices to make.
"Publish a 200-word essay with a 30-minute time limit every day for 30 days."
This is easier.
Within these constraints, creativity thrives.
The foundation of Ship 30 for 30 comes from @jackbutcher:
Make noise, listen for signal.
Weekly blog posts sent into the void = no feedback.
Daily Atomic Essays on Twitter = immediate feedback.
Faster feedback = faster iterations.
But not with common advice of "believing" in yourself.
Early writers think everyone else has figured out.
Until they start writing.
Then, they realize everyone is figuring it out as they go.
Cure impostor syndrome with action, not belief.
If you're afraid to publish ideas online, you have an ego problem.
You assume people care what you have to say.
Newsflash: No one on earth thinks about you 1/10000 as much as you think about yourself.
Just start shipping.
The goal of Ship 30 for 30: build an online writing habit in 30 days.
The real goal: become a writer.
Because writers write every day.
When your habits align with your identity, they're easy to stick to.
Simple as that.
Writing every day, alone, is hard.
Writing every day, surrounded by 250+ others on the same journey as you, is easy.
When a behavior aligns with the rest of the tribe, behavior change is easy.
There's a camaraderie to group struggle.
Never underestimate accountability.
Ship 30 for 30 leverages:
• Financial accountability
• Community accountability
If Ship 30 for 30 was free or done privately, no one would stick to it.
With any new habit, find your forcing functions.
No one has 200 shitty versions of anything.
They either quit after 10 tries or stick with it long enough to figure it out.
It's not 10,000 hours.
It's 10,000 iterations.
In 30 minutes per day, you unlock:
• Clearer thinking
• Sharper communication skills
• Access to like-minded people
And most importantly:
Unstoppable personal momentum.
And you can jump back to the top of the thread here: https://t.co/jY1qfJIxAU
In the last 60 days, I've helped 253 people build an online writing habit.
— Dickie Bush \U0001f6a2 (@dickiebush) February 2, 2021
Here are 10 lessons they've taught me in behavior change, human psychology, and writing online.
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THREAD: I've thought a lot about what it means to be wealthy.
But putting a "number" on it is a one-way ticket to the rat race.
Instead, here are 10 indicators of wealth (which have nothing to do with money):
1.
Wealth is the ability to choose:
• How you spend your time
• Where you spend your time
• Who you spend your time with
Learned from the wise @jamesclear
2.
Wealth is freedom from:
• Negative people
• Negative thoughts
• Negative emotions
• Forced obligations
@EricJorgenson's Almanack of @naval says it best:
Wealth is not freedom to, it's freedom from.
3.
Wealth is a calendar without recurring meetings.
Recurring meetings mean you're on someone else's schedule.
Empty calendars mean you're on your own schedule.
Here's an example
4.
Wealth is the ability to say no.
Early on, building wealth requires saying yes.
Yes to people, projects, and places you're not thrilled about.
But you've found wealth when you start saying no.
But putting a "number" on it is a one-way ticket to the rat race.
Instead, here are 10 indicators of wealth (which have nothing to do with money):
1.
Wealth is the ability to choose:
• How you spend your time
• Where you spend your time
• Who you spend your time with
Learned from the wise @jamesclear
2.
Wealth is freedom from:
• Negative people
• Negative thoughts
• Negative emotions
• Forced obligations
@EricJorgenson's Almanack of @naval says it best:
Wealth is not freedom to, it's freedom from.
3.
Wealth is a calendar without recurring meetings.
Recurring meetings mean you're on someone else's schedule.
Empty calendars mean you're on your own schedule.
Here's an example
Wealth pic.twitter.com/iS395O2h0Z
— Jack Butcher (@jackbutcher) February 3, 2021
4.
Wealth is the ability to say no.
Early on, building wealth requires saying yes.
Yes to people, projects, and places you're not thrilled about.
But you've found wealth when you start saying no.
Atomic Habits from @jamesclear changed my life.
In Atomic Habits, James lays out the Four Laws of Behavior Change.
1. Make it obvious
2. Make it attractive
3. Make it easy
4. Make it satisfying
Here's how to leverage them to build a daily writing habit (🧵✍🏼):
Habits are made up of a four-part feedback loop:
1. Cue
2. Craving
3. Response
4. Reward
Building a habit means intentionally designing each part of this feedback loop.
1. Make it obvious
2. Make it attractive
3. Make it easy
4. Make it
Before you start to build a writing habit, it's important to understand the real goal.
Your goal isn't to start writing.
Your goal is to become a writer.
Why the subtle difference?
Because behavior change is identity change.
We don't stick to habits that aren't aligned with our identity.
Luckily, habits that align with your identity are easy to stick to.
Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you want to become.
So to become a writer, we have to consistently cast "writer votes."
Step 1: Make it obvious
Time and location are the most important habit cues.
You MUST leverage them to build your writing habit.
Every great writer has their sacred hours.
This thread can help you find
In Atomic Habits, James lays out the Four Laws of Behavior Change.
1. Make it obvious
2. Make it attractive
3. Make it easy
4. Make it satisfying
Here's how to leverage them to build a daily writing habit (🧵✍🏼):
Habits are made up of a four-part feedback loop:
1. Cue
2. Craving
3. Response
4. Reward
Building a habit means intentionally designing each part of this feedback loop.
1. Make it obvious
2. Make it attractive
3. Make it easy
4. Make it
The Habit Loop
— James Clear (@JamesClear) November 5, 2018
To better understand how a habit works and how to improve it, let's divide a habit into four stages.
1. Cue
2. Craving
3. Response
4. Reward
These four stages create a feedback loop. Your mind is endlessly running this loop and learning from its experiences. pic.twitter.com/sURCbTPp3N
Before you start to build a writing habit, it's important to understand the real goal.
Your goal isn't to start writing.
Your goal is to become a writer.
Why the subtle difference?
Because behavior change is identity change.
We don't stick to habits that aren't aligned with our identity.
Luckily, habits that align with your identity are easy to stick to.
Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you want to become.
So to become a writer, we have to consistently cast "writer votes."
Step 1: Make it obvious
Time and location are the most important habit cues.
You MUST leverage them to build your writing habit.
Every great writer has their sacred hours.
This thread can help you find
Sacred Hours...
— Dickie Bush \U0001f6a2 (@dickiebush) December 2, 2020
A life-changing concept.
What are they and how to find yours: (thread) pic.twitter.com/AHSMqwtTb0
To master the creative process, give yourself permission to create junk.
This is one of the many things I learned diving into everything @jamesclear has published on creativity and building a writing habit.
Here's a thread of his best articles, tweets, and podcast appearances:
1/ Reasons @JamesClear writes
• Write for yourself
• Write to learn more
• Write to build a business
• Write to clarify your thoughts
But most importantly, writing is leadership at scale.
And it will carry your ideas further than
2/ Five steps to mastering the creative process
1) Give yourself permission to create junk
2) Create on a schedule
3) Finishing something
4) Stop judging your own work
5) Hold yourself accountable
I can't overstate the value of this resource 👇🏼
3/ How to overcome others (and yourself) judging your writing
• The first obstacle: overcoming your own judgment
• But once you start publishing, you will meet external judgment.
His advice comes from Mario Andretti:
Focus on the road, not the
4/ Three tips for getting started as a writer:
1) Publish on a schedule
2) Share your writing publicly
3) Write about what fascinates
This is one of the many things I learned diving into everything @jamesclear has published on creativity and building a writing habit.
Here's a thread of his best articles, tweets, and podcast appearances:
1/ Reasons @JamesClear writes
• Write for yourself
• Write to learn more
• Write to build a business
• Write to clarify your thoughts
But most importantly, writing is leadership at scale.
And it will carry your ideas further than
2/ Five steps to mastering the creative process
1) Give yourself permission to create junk
2) Create on a schedule
3) Finishing something
4) Stop judging your own work
5) Hold yourself accountable
I can't overstate the value of this resource 👇🏼
3/ How to overcome others (and yourself) judging your writing
• The first obstacle: overcoming your own judgment
• But once you start publishing, you will meet external judgment.
His advice comes from Mario Andretti:
Focus on the road, not the
4/ Three tips for getting started as a writer:
1) Publish on a schedule
2) Share your writing publicly
3) Write about what fascinates
3 tips for getting started as a writer
— James Clear (@JamesClear) March 20, 2019
1. Publish on a schedule. Consistency develops ability.
2. Share your writing publicly. Writing is a magnet. It attracts like-minded people.
3. Write about what fascinates you. You don't need to be an expert. Curiosity leads to expertise.
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I just finished Eric Adler's The Battle of the Classics, and wanted to say something about Joel Christiansen's review linked below. I am not sure what motivates the review (I speculate a bit below), but it gives a very misleading impression of the book. 1/x
The meat of the criticism is that the history Adler gives is insufficiently critical. Adler describes a few figures who had a great influence on how the modern US university was formed. It's certainly critical: it focuses on the social Darwinism of these figures. 2/x
Other insinuations and suggestions in the review seem wildly off the mark, distorted, or inappropriate-- for example, that the book is clickbaity (it is scholarly) or conservative (hardly) or connected to the events at the Capitol (give me a break). 3/x
The core question: in what sense is classics inherently racist? Classics is old. On Adler's account, it begins in ancient Rome and is revived in the Renaissance. Slavery (Christiansen's primary concern) is also very old. Let's say classics is an education for slaveowners. 4/x
It's worth remembering that literacy itself is elite throughout most of this history. Literacy is, then, also the education of slaveowners. We can honor oral and musical traditions without denying that literacy is, generally, good. 5/x
As someone\u2019s who\u2019s read the book, this review strikes me as tremendously unfair. It mostly faults Adler for not writing the book the reviewer wishes he had! https://t.co/pqpt5Ziivj
— Teresa M. Bejan (@tmbejan) January 12, 2021
The meat of the criticism is that the history Adler gives is insufficiently critical. Adler describes a few figures who had a great influence on how the modern US university was formed. It's certainly critical: it focuses on the social Darwinism of these figures. 2/x
Other insinuations and suggestions in the review seem wildly off the mark, distorted, or inappropriate-- for example, that the book is clickbaity (it is scholarly) or conservative (hardly) or connected to the events at the Capitol (give me a break). 3/x
The core question: in what sense is classics inherently racist? Classics is old. On Adler's account, it begins in ancient Rome and is revived in the Renaissance. Slavery (Christiansen's primary concern) is also very old. Let's say classics is an education for slaveowners. 4/x
It's worth remembering that literacy itself is elite throughout most of this history. Literacy is, then, also the education of slaveowners. We can honor oral and musical traditions without denying that literacy is, generally, good. 5/x