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The Minimalists

How to Stay Motivated When Writing

The Minimalists

Joshua Fields Millburn

Home & Garden, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Leisure

4.711.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Joshua discusses how to maintain motivation during a writing project with author Ryan Holiday. Listen to “Maximal” episodes of The Minimalists Private Podcast exclusively at patreon.com/theminimalists

Transcript

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0:00.0

Da Minimists.

0:02.0

Hmm.

0:03.0

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0:06.6

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0:07.9

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0:14.1

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0:21.1

Enjoy.

0:26.1

Chris and Tallahassee has a question.

0:28.7

Hello guys, this is Chris from Florida.

0:30.7

The question is about writing.

0:32.2

A technical writer by trade as my day job, but I write fiction in my spare time.

0:36.7

Often I get an idea about a story that I'm excited about and I'll start writing as soon

0:40.2

a newer sexier idea comes along and I feel attempted to abandon the first idea.

0:44.4

Do you guys have some tips for staying energized with an older idea and finishing it before

0:48.4

moving on to the next thing?

0:50.9

So I think what you are dealing with is what Stephen Pressfield will call the resistance

0:55.2

of the trademark resistance.

0:57.2

You are starting a project, you are doing the easy parts and it's not that you are having

1:00.9

another idea and you can't stay focused.

1:02.9

It's that the beginning of the idea is usually the easiest, most fun part.

1:07.0

And so you are like water, you are just going downhill towards and then as soon as it gets

1:11.8

hard, you are switching directions.

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