#2785 - Failure Friday: A Year Spent Writing the Wrong Book
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
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🗓️ 16 August 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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In this week’s “Failure Friday” segment, we hear from a programmer who spent a year writing a 300-page book of life lessons only to realize it was overly generic and unappealing.
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| 0:00.0 | Failure Friday a year spent writing the wrong book. |
| 0:07.0 | Man as I was working on this episode I was like this year spent writing the wrong book. |
| 0:13.0 | Man, as I was working on this episode, |
| 0:14.4 | I was like, this could have been my story, actually. |
| 0:17.2 | We're gonna hear a story from a programmer |
| 0:19.8 | who spent a year writing a 300-page book only to realize it was kind of the wrong book. |
| 0:24.9 | It wasn't the book he should have been writing. |
| 0:27.0 | In his case he realized it was overly generic and unappealing. |
| 0:30.9 | So my story wouldn't be exactly like that, but I have written a number of books. |
| 0:35.0 | I've gotten about halfway through writing a book and realize this is not the book I should be writing right now. |
| 0:41.0 | And it's difficult because you're like well hopefully I'm |
| 0:44.4 | gonna that process is going to lead to the better book but then you're also like man I |
| 0:48.5 | spent three months or you know whatever the time might be, |
| 0:53.4 | working on this project in which I now have to kind of move on from, |
| 0:57.3 | which ultimately is what life is about, right? |
| 0:58.8 | We start different things, we try things, |
| 1:00.2 | we go down different paths, |
| 1:01.9 | and hopefully we eventually get to the thing that is most appropriate, |
| 1:06.5 | most meaningful for us where we can make an impact, you know, live a good life, love people, |
| 1:11.2 | all those good things, but it is frustrating when you go down a path |
| 1:15.2 | and realize you spend a lot of time and you're not going to get that time back. |
| 1:18.9 | So let's talk about it from this person's story. This is David, and today of course is our failure Friday segment where we look |
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