I've listened to this David Perell (@david_perell) podcast with Seth Godin on online writing at least 7 times this year.
Here are the one-liners that stuck with me 🧵
• Committing to show up every day with something that might shine a light for somebody is a really good habit to have.
• Compliance and authority scale way better than freedom and responsibility.
• Fear is the evidence, our body telling us that we’re onto something important.
• The fear of being held accountable can make it harder to share your thoughts and ideas.
Seth On Writing;
• Inspiration comes from writing, not the other way around.
• Writing every day can lead to generative thinking and new ideas.
• Even if no one read my blog, I would still write it.
• Writing tools can serve as a Pavlovian reminder to get to work.
Seth on Education;
• Homeschooling is expensive and scary because it requires accepting responsibility for one of the most important things in your family's life, for which you have almost no training.
• To win the game of education, you have to play a different game and figure out what other agendas are available for your kids and family.
• The flipped classroom model can be effective when students are self-motivated and have a strong foundation in the subject matter.
Online Education;
• The hardest part of online learning is getting people to trust themselves enough to enroll.
• Online education plays right into the hands of the factory mindset.
• Online learning causes deep and permanent change and works at scale.
• Online learning experiences need to create surprises and delight to be successful.
• Scarcity is either created by geography or by man-made structure, and online learning does not have geography.
• If you're fortunate enough to grow up in a home filled with stability, possibility, and encouragement, that is a huge advantage over people who don't have that ability.
• Communities need boundaries, and their members should be enrolled in a similar journey.
• Instead of denying how you feel, you might look at how you feel as a symptom that you were doing something important and generous.
• If you are doing work that hasn’t been done before, which means creativity or leadership, then you can’t be sure it’s going to work. Because it’s never been done before.
Glad you enjoyed the one-liners!
Here's the link to listen to the full episode: perell.com/podcast/seth-godin-writing-every-day/