A couple of days ago I invited three of my friends to join me in my monthly Book Writing Clinic (BWC), a five-hour long seminar where I teach how to write books. The three of them excused themselves saying they couldn’t afford the seminar. The episode made me think. Could it be they didn’t genuinely have money or they didn’t really feel like attending? Either way, this post, which is actually four short posts combined

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“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” Proust Three years or so before I knew anything about speaking professionally for megabucks I read an article I considered one of the best-written articles of all time. It was about excellence and its underlying essence. Towards the end of that article, the writer remarked with an air of finality, ‘‘if you wish to write and speak as phenomenally

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