Rewriting the Story of Your Life With Donald Miller
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2015
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Don Miller fell in love writing at a very early age, when believed he was naive enough to make a living at it. Writing a newsgroup newsletter for the local church lit the spark for a writing career that has spanned many years and several best sellers.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Owning our formative experiences as part of the journey
- The war of identity that comes with growing up
- How brain chemistry impacts our drive and motivation
- Why tragedy and the lowest moments of our life can be the most powerful ones
- Why adversity is one of the most important elements of a great story
- An inner knowing that you’re significant and what you say matters
- What causes certain leaders to become villains
- The influence of religion and spirituality on Don’s work
- The law of diminishing returns and positive feedback
- Learning to turn the other cheek to criticism
- Why pain is key to character transformation
QUOTES
The fulfilling journey of doing something the difficult requires you to go through dark valleys.
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. |
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