291. How I wrote a book
The Psychology of your 20s
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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
Listen now!
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| 0:29.7 | John F. Kennedy. |
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| 0:43.8 | Hello everybody. Welcome back to the show. Welcome back to the podcast. New listeners, old |
| 0:50.2 | listeners, wherever you are in the world. It is so great to have you here back for another |
| 0:55.4 | episode as we of course break down the psychology of our 20s. Today's episode is going to be |
| 1:04.1 | a little bit different. We are not talking about, you know, something that every 20 something |
| 1:09.3 | is going to do, which I typically like to center my episodes on. |
| 1:12.8 | We're not even talking about psychology all that much. |
| 1:15.9 | But of course, it is still going to be an element of that. |
| 1:18.6 | What we are talking about is my new book, mainly the process by which I was able to write it. |
| 1:27.2 | My book took me around four to six months to write, |
| 1:31.9 | to write the first draft. First draft I was really, really happy with. And then from there, |
| 1:36.9 | there was so many extra hidden steps that I think that no one really talks about when they say |
| 1:43.8 | they want to write a book or when they're |
| 1:45.6 | talking about authorship. I think we have this idea in our heads of like, okay, I'll write a book, |
| 1:50.7 | I'll put everything into it. It will take me a couple months and then it will come out. And as soon |
| 1:56.2 | as I'm done writing it, you know, the next shipment of books that are coming in, that's going to have my name on it. |
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