Best Of: Rewriting the Story of Your Life with Donald Miller

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Back when he was still young and naive, Don Miller fell in love with writing and believed he could make a living at it. Writing a newsgroup newsletter for the local church sparked the flame for a successful writing career and has now spanned many years and several best sellers. Don unpacks many helpful lessons and life experiences such as why pain is key to character transformation, the influence of religion and spirituality on his work or even what causes leaders to become villains. These and many more profound lessons help us understand the method of rewriting the story of your life.

Donald “Don” Miller is a best-selling American author and public speaker based in Nashville, Tennessee who focuses on Christian spirituality as “an explanation for beauty, meaning, and the human struggle”.

You can follow him on twitter @donaldmiller

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0:00.0	Well, I think there's a progression. You know, for me it started with getting positive feedback and having my identity shaped and formed by the feedback of others.
0:10.0	And then taking that feedback into writing hopefully better and better books and getting better and better feedback.
0:16.0	But the only thing about positive feedback is there's a law of diminishing returns.
0:22.0	And it doesn't mean as much. is there's a law of diminishing returns.
0:23.0	And it doesn't mean as much the further you get into it.
0:27.0	And that's kind of sad, but it's also kind of great
0:30.0	because you actually struggle in the next phase with, okay, do you love your ego and do you love your identity or do you love the work? And that's phase two.
0:42.0	Where you begin to really fall in love with
0:44.2	the craft and the process and then I actually think there's an evolution beyond
0:47.8	phase two and a phase three where you actually begin to love the reader where you
0:52.3	know you've learned the craft and you've learned the process and you've shaped your identity and this is the path you have to go to.
0:58.0	You can't jump right into loading the reader. It doesn't work that way. But as you keep going, you sort of play out on the sense that, okay, I know I'm a writer, I get it, you know, and everybody's told me that for some of the years. I don't need any more affirmation in that category of life. And now I know I'm a good writer
1:13.7	and I've learned the craft and I've really
1:14.9	fallen in love with the way the structure of these things.
1:17.8	And now, you know, with the kind of writing
1:21.7	that I'm beginning to do now, I find myself thinking more and more about the reader and thinking about, well, I hope this helps them, or I hope this comforts them, and I have a suspicion that this is when work really gets good.
1:38.0	I'm Sreeney Rao and this is the unmistakable creative podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started movements, built thriving businesses, written best-selling books, and created insanely interesting art.
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2:25.0	If you could go back in time...
2:27.0	If you could go back in time...
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