Jerry Seinfeld's best bits about writing in a 17-minute video
"Get good at something. That’s it. Everything else is bullshit.”
David Perell: “Jerry Seinfeld is one of the rare greats who loves to talk about his process. After watching hours of his interviews, I collected the best bits about writing into a 17-minute video.”
Some highlights:
1) No such thing as writer's block. There's laziness, there's fear, there's distraction, there's a lack of skill. But there's no such thing as writer's block.
2) Tim Ferriss once asked Seinfeld what message he'd put on a billboard for other creatives to see. It'd say: "Just work."
3) "Get good at something. That’s it. Everything else is bullshit.”
4) "Make sure you fail doing exactly what you want to do. That, you can live with.“ — Dave Letterman's advice to him.
5) Embrace the difficulty of writing. Yes, it's hard. What's your point? Either you want it or you don’t, but if you’re expecting it to be easy to write something great, drop the pen, walk away from the keyboard and do something else. You don’t want it bad enough.
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