Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2019-05-16
Books mentioned on The Power Of Writing - David Perell - #072
David Perell is a podcaster, blogger and writing coach. Why is the ability to write effectively the biggest opportunity which individuals can capitalise on?
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Atomic Habits
Atomic Habits by James Clear is a popular self-improvement guide that offers actionable strategies for building positive routines and breaking negative ones through small, incremental changes.
Discussed“and then if you read that book the way in which he could distill his ideas and atomic habits the way in which he could craft sentences that really compress all the wisdom writing is able to do that in a way that no other media is because it's malleable”
Where to get it
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1984
1984 by George Orwell is a classic dystopian novel depicting a totalitarian regime characterized by extreme government surveillance, historical negationism, and psychological manipulation.
Discussed“If you've read 1984 we know that a restriction in language is essentially the same as a restriction in thinking because without the capacity to articulate the thought you essentially can't have the thought itself”
Where to get it
