Episode · How I Write · 2024-01-10
Books mentioned on Write More Productively (How to Start) | Tiago Forte | How I Write Podcast
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Godfather
The Godfather by Mario Puzo is a sprawling crime fiction novel that chronicles the powerful Corleone mafia family and their involvement in organized crime.
Discussed“Typically, you think of the script as the authority, as the backbone of the movie, but for him, even more important than the script was this notebook where he got pages of the Godfather novel, cut them out, pasted them on his own notebook, and then essentially annotated, underlined, added what I would call progressive summarization to deconstruct that story”
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Building a Second Brain
Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte is a comprehensive guide to personal knowledge management, digital organization systems, and methods for capturing and retrieving ideas efficiently.
Discussed“We've built up the Building a Second Brain aura and reputation and brand by charging a lot of money for the course. So then when the book came out, people felt like, and in some cases it's true, they were getting that value for 1% or less of the price, and that's one reason the book has done so well.”
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The Body Keeps the Score
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk is a bestselling psychology book that investigates how trauma physically affects the human body and mind, offering paths to recovery.
Discussed“You wrote an amazing one about the body keeps the score. That is so good.”
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