Minisode 31 Lessons From Book Writing
Author tips for book writing: read out-loud, creating intrinsic motivation, cognitive ability variances throughout the day, and writing to your target...
Minisode 31 Lessons From Book Writing
Author tips for book writing: read out-loud, creating intrinsic motivation, cognitive ability variances throughout the day, and writing to your target audience.
Today's show is with Tim Ferriss, 305, Daniel Pink, he's the author of amazing books, you know, always long episodes. So I just took the highlights, which you know, obviously are a good bit, but mostly about interviewing and writing books, finding what you shouldn't do. So here are some of the highlights.
When working his books, he reads them out loud. And he also has somebody else read them out loud because he can hear what sounds bad. Now that's a labor of love. I don't know if you've ever done it, you know, for like a short paragraph or two. I know I have. It's like reading and I got it sounds dumb. Okay, let me reword it. And this is just what he does for his entire book several times and his wife like she's awesome.
And a speech. If you're writing some for speech, the differences because he was a speechwriter for a while, you can see the crowd's reaction, and then just make changes for the next one time. Because he was a political writer.
Another thing, this could be good for doctors as motivational interviewing, you can ask from one to 10. Why don't you want to do X, Y, Z activity? So it's framing a negative into like a positive? Because you don't want to do it? Or you think you should do it, but you haven't done it. So you're procrastinating. So why don't you want to do it? What's your number 10 being the best, I'm going to do it tomorrow, one being is not going to happen.
So if they reply with a three, then you're follow up question is, well, then why didn't you rank it lower? and make some think, hmm, it triggers their autonomic intrinsic motivation. Now they can be more likely to do it. So you can ask your patients, you know, are you wanting to get the veneers and you want to get a surgery? What would it benefit you with? You know, why would you hesitate? And how likely are you to do you know, maybe like a three or four? You know, okay, well, why don't you make it lower like, well, and then they start giving you reasons, you know, and get some motivated,
being completely in control of others is not a good motivator. Because either going to comply with it and get the are you going to deny it, and it's not going to get done. So there's a movement these days where like standardized test scores aren't as important as they used to be. It ain't there yet. But so the left brain is kind of in charge of that. But the right brain is becoming more important because it brings new and higher thought, and that I heard is what big companies are looking for? Yeah, you got to know the left brain, the algorithms, but how do you apply it into something that's not even an issue yet, when writing a book, doing a podcast,
try to use an outline, there's just something to having structure and shape that are important. Now, it could be a two-page outline, just hitting the highlights. But it's enough to where you can know that you're on track. So it's like on a podcast, if you have the solo episode, you know, there's the next point, here's the next one. Here's the next point, I got notes right here to read through.
One thing that he found in his new book when his cognitive ability does vary throughout the day, so you can put on more hours if you want, but you're still gonna have ebbs and flows throughout the day, typically morning is better than right after lunch. There was a 20% shift in structured exams from students from those who took in the morning versus in the afternoon. 20%. Like, that's huge when you're talking about trying to get into college.
And here are some takeaways for both Tim and Daniel, when you're going to write a book, when you do writing, it's not when you have ideas ready, but you write to get your ideas ready, you write to figure out what's in your head, and it was all up in there, it's kind of here,
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