291. How I wrote a book and how you can too

The Psychology of your 20s

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Mental Health, Self-improvement, Fitness, Education, Relationships, Science, Social Sciences, How To, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

I wrote a book and it's out today! Person in Progress: The Roadmap to The Psychology of your 20s contains everything you need to know about your 20s: how to find your purpose, how to manage relationship breakdowns, fight your self doubt, break bad habits, manage your money, heal your childhood wounds, embrace your authenticity, all from a scientific place!

In this episode we break down exactly HOW I wrote my book and all the advice I would give to a new writer, including:

How to find your big idea
How to find a publisher
How to write a pitch
My 5 best tips for writing even when it's hard
How to manage imposter syndrome and worrying 'will anyone read this'
How to deal with writer's block + so much more

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0:00.0	I'm Soledad O'Brien, and on my new true crime podcast, Murder on the Tooth Path,
0:05.3	I'm taking it back to 1964 to the cold case of artist Mary Pinch O'Meyer.
0:11.5	She had been shot twice in the head and in the back.
0:14.8	It turns out Mary was connected to a very powerful man.
0:20.0	I pledge you that we shall neither commit nor provoke aggression.
0:24.4	John F. Kennedy.
0:26.3	Listen to Murder on the Toothpath with Soledat O'Brien on the Iheart Radio app,
0:31.2	Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.
0:38.5	Hello everybody. Welcome back to the show. Welcome back to the podcast. New listeners,
0:44.8	old listeners, wherever you are in the world. It is so great to have you here back for another
0:50.2	episode as we of course break down the psychology of our 20s. Today's episode is going to be
0:58.9	a little bit different. We are not talking about, you know, something that every 20 something is
1:04.3	going to do, which I typically like to center my episodes on. We're not even talking about
1:09.2	psychology all that much. But of course, it is still going to
1:11.8	be an element of that. What we are talking about is my new book, mainly the process by which I was
1:20.7	able to write it. My book took me around four to six months to write, to write the first draft.
1:28.1	First draft I was really, really happy with.
1:30.2	And then from there, there was so many extra hidden steps that I think that no one really
1:36.6	talks about when they say they want to write a book or when they're talking about authorship.
1:41.7	I think we have this idea in our heads of like, okay, I'll write a book, I'll put everything into it. It will take me a couple months,
1:48.4	and then it will come out. And as soon as I'm done writing it, you know, the next shipment of books
1:53.7	that are coming in, that's going to have my name on it. It's such a secretive process almost.
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