E102 - Lee Child: Hoping for the best but planning for the worst

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4.8 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Lee Child (aka James Dover Grant CBE) is an author, most well known for his thriller series Jack Reacher. The novels follow Jack, a former American military policeman, who ambles around the United States. The series has sold over 100 million copies, selling 9 books every second.

Lee Child was born in Coventry, went to law school in Sheffield and after part-time work in the theatre, he joined Granada Television in Manchester for what turned out to be an eighteen-year career as a presentation director. But Lee was fired in 1995 at the age of 40 as a result of corporate restructuring. He decided to throw all those years of television experience behind writing a thriller, spent £3.99 on some paper and pencils, sat down to write a book, Killing Floor, the first in the Jack Reacher series.

Reacher launches on Prime Video on 4th February.

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0:00.0	This is High Performance, our gift to you for free every single week.
0:06.8	This is the podcast that turns the lived experiences of the planet's highest performers
0:11.1	into your life lessons.
0:12.6	Yes, I have got a cold.
0:14.8	And yes, this is what awaits you in today's episode.
0:19.5	I love being number one in the bestseller list.
0:21.8	It's just a thing that nobody can take away from you.
0:25.5	You know, you've done it.
0:26.5	That is the success that you get.
0:29.1	It feels really great.
0:30.1	I allowed no doubts at all.
0:32.3	I thought I'm going to write a book.
0:34.1	It's going to be successful.
0:35.4	It's going to be okay, which is a ludicrous, delusional thing to do because writing a book
0:42.0	is like buying a lottery ticket, probably even worse odds than that, to be honest.
0:45.9	But if you allow that doubt to creep in, you're never going to get anywhere.
0:49.6	You know, so many races are all about themselves.
0:54.2	They buy the leather jacket and the black polo and neck and this pack of gall was and so
0:59.2	on.
1:00.2	And they think this is being a rite.
1:01.8	And it's not about you.
1:04.3	Is the reader happy?
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