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9 Things I Learned From Ryan Holiday About Creativity, Productivity, and Life - Billy Oppenheimer

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In June 2018, I cold emailed my favorite writer. I thanked him for his work then offered to work for him for free. 6 months later, I was hired full time as a research and writing assistant. Since then, I’ve helped or observed Ryan Holiday research, write, publish, and market 5 bestselling books, grow his email lists by some 500,000 subscribers, and publish an article a week read by who knows how many people. I wrote this piece when Ryan was working on his 12th book, The Boy Who Would Be King. It’s about how the influential figures in a boy’s life helped shaped who he became. But I was hesitant to publish it. I was afraid to put my writing out there and afraid to not get it right and afraid to not perfectly capture all I’ve learned from one of the most influential figures in my life. Then I got my copy of Ryan’s 13th book, Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave, a book I saw come together chapter by chapter in individual Google docs. I reread part 1. Part 1 is about conquering fea

In June 2018, I cold emailed my favorite writer. I thanked him for his work then offered to work for him for free. 6 months later, I was hired full time as a research and writing assistant. Since then, I’ve helped or observed Ryan Holiday research, write, publish, and market 5 bestselling books, grow his email lists by some 500,000 subscribers, and publish an article a week read by who knows how many people. I wrote this piece when Ryan was working on his 12th book, The Boy Who Would Be King . It’s about how the influential figures in a boy’s life helped shaped who he became. But I was h

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