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The Tai Lopez Show

How To Write Your Book In 5 Minutes: Joel Salatin, Tai Lopez's First Mentor

The Tai Lopez Show

Tai Lopez

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4.86.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2016

⏱️ 9 minutes

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My first mentor Joel Salatin came to visit. He's written 10 books. He has a busy life so I asked him how he found the time to write so many books. He gave me his "secret" formula.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm here with Joel Salatin my first mentor from long ago and Joel wrote a book

0:07.7

you've written 10 books and you wrote a book and how many days the quickest the

0:12.8

quickest one was was in five days five days imagine if you could write a book

0:17.4

you were given a couple principles on you were just telling me I said we got to

0:20.8

record this yeah well the first principle is I mean I saw I'm making an

0:25.8

outline that's number one get it out like a table of contents or a table of

0:30.1

contents that gives you your direction and then and then and then I just block out

0:35.5

a group of days and then every day I just get up and I say by noon I want this

0:43.3

chapter done by three o'clock this chapter by eight o'clock and and and you just

0:47.6

force yourself to bang through it don't worry about if it's good don't worry

0:52.2

about all the style don't even worry if it's accurate for that matter just just

0:57.9

get it on paper get get a rough stuff on paper because you can always go back

1:02.3

and refine and change it but but the problem the problem is the inertia that's

1:07.9

the problem is the inertia of getting it you know getting the rough idea down

1:12.0

so most people you think freeze yeah I feel like most people freeze up because

1:15.7

they don't know what you're saying about setting deadlines I read an old book

1:18.7

it said go into it with the menta at the first draft is for the trash so then

1:23.9

it frees you up because you just write like you said you're not going is this

1:27.4

perfect that's right that's right I think that's most people are way too anal

1:32.5

from the get go yeah and it bogged you down yeah you know you need the snowball

1:37.2

you need you need as you get as you get cranking because you freed yourself up

1:43.7

from feeling like you know this is the final product okay then you get a

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