#072 - David Perell - The Power Of Writing
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.7 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
David Perell is a podcaster, blogger and writing coach.
Why is the ability to write effectively the biggest opportunity which individuals can capitalise on? How can an improved grasp of language actually improve the quality of your thoughts? And why should you focus on content which is longer than 24 hours old?
Expect to find out all this and much more, huge thanks to David for coming on and dropping some fantastic insights, Round #2 will be coming soon.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends, welcome back to the Modern Wisdom Podcast. Today's guest is |
| 0:05.7 | fellow podcaster, blogger, writing coach and incredibly interesting individual |
| 0:12.0 | David Perrell. We had no agenda going into today and ended up coming out with |
| 0:18.6 | some fantastic insights into what David's been working on at the moment. |
| 0:22.5 | Chiefly, why the ability to write effectively is his single biggest |
| 0:29.3 | opportunity, which individuals can capitalize on in the 21st century. Also, how |
| 0:35.1 | an improved grasp of language can actually improve the quality of your thoughts, |
| 0:39.0 | and why you should focus on content which is more than 24 hours old. |
| 0:44.9 | David talks about some really interesting articles and resources, all of which |
| 0:50.4 | are linked in the show notes below. And of course, if you do have time to give us five star |
| 0:56.3 | rating on iTunes or share the episode with a friend, I would be very grateful. For now, |
| 1:02.2 | please welcome David Perrell. |
| 1:20.5 | I am joined by host of the North Star Podcast and all-round interesting internet person, |
| 1:26.1 | David Perrell. David, welcome to the show. Thank you. I'm really excited to be here. |
| 1:30.5 | We've had some technical problems, but we've managed to girdle them around and we've fixed it, |
| 1:35.1 | and we're fully working now, right? We're resilient, my friend. No matter where we are, |
| 1:39.4 | no matter what's in our way, we're resilient. We certainly are. So we haven't got an agenda for |
| 1:44.9 | today. We're just going to talk about whatever's been going on. So what have you had on your mind |
| 1:48.9 | recently, David? Yeah, so we'll have spent the last 10 days in Morocco. So that has absolutely been |
| 1:56.3 | the thing most on my mind. And I mean, that was wonderful. It's really the first time in recent |
| 2:02.1 | memory that I've spent, I barely consumed any information, just pure observation and pure |
| 2:08.9 | just living and really enjoyable. I had actually forgotten what it was like to just be in a state of |
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