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A Few Thoughts On Writing · Collab Fund

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You have five seconds to get people’s attention.

A Few Thoughts On Writing Jan 13, 2021 SHARE ↓ by Morgan Housel @morganhousel Copy Link You have five seconds to get people’s attention . Books, blogs, emails, reports, it doesn’t matter – if you don’t sell them in five seconds you’ve exhausted most of their patience. Good ideas are easy to write, bad ideas are hard . Difficulty is a quality signal, and writer’s block usually indicates more about your ideas than your writing. Impatience has increased with social media . Someone reading a book 20 years ago had few other distractions. Today a phone offers infinite, nonstop competition for y

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