Effective selling of intellectual output rests almost entirely on your ability to be sincerely impressed by your own thoughts.
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Numbers game IMO
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Sometimes when writers are starting out, they agonize too much about whether their work is good
Simple trick: just be so prolific that you can’t recognise your own writing. Then you’ll be able to identify what’s good the same way you identify good writing anywhere else
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No I’m talking about something else. When you’re visibly and publicly impressed by your own thoughts, and non-ironically say things like “this is my best work”, for surprisingly many people that works as social proof.
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And aligning it with what the other person wants to hear. Deep validation is the most effective intellectual BS.
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This is why I tend to favor an inductive approach. I'm more confident asserting crazy ideas if I have a ton of empirical evidence to point to + take the reader through my process getting there
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I think this could also be related to me not being able to sell after a vacation. I have to tinker a little with the code, impress myself again and then go talk to new clients.
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If true that makes the objective quality of my thought irrelevant. Me being visibly stoked about it closes more sales?








