Work Ethic 101 + How to Fight Against Writer's Block With Legendary Singer / Songwriter Ryan Tedder - "I Now Do 7 to 10 Songs Per Week. I Don't Believe In Writer's Block." - Ryan Tedder (Song-Writer for U2, Taylor Swift, Maroon 5,
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Clay Clark
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🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I do, I now do probably, honestly, probably seven to 10 songs a week. |
| 0:08.0 | What? |
| 0:09.0 | To achieve not even the same level of like, hits that I had, you know, 10 years ago. |
| 0:15.0 | I mean, don't you run out of ideas? |
| 0:16.0 | I know that's like a, like a dumb question, but like... |
| 0:19.0 | If I have something, I don't believe in writer's block |
| 0:22.3 | so fundamentally i don't i think i think i think if you give power to something that is |
| 0:27.9 | absolutely uh you know a ghost and not a real thing then it has power and if you do not give it power |
| 0:36.8 | and just call bullshit then it has no power so i don't believe in writer's block. But that's just me. I want to ask you a same question. Coachability. You know, you write music. So you write a song. You're excited about it. It's a new melody, a new lyric, a new something. But you also sit down with writers and maybe who writers who you think are better than you are as good as you, and there's some coaching that happens. What's your just thoughts on coachability? How do you |
| 0:58.7 | approach being coachable but also being confident? Yeah. Actually, it was looking up that |
| 1:04.1 | verse that you just spoke on. It's in Proverbs. It says, a fool despises his father's instruction, but he who regards for proof is prudent. |
| 1:13.3 | So that applies to a lot of different areas. |
| 1:17.2 | But basically, those who are willing to have someone give them instruction and even correction, |
| 1:24.8 | they're going to be prudent for it. |
| 1:26.5 | So when it comes to songwriting, I much prefer to write with people who are, |
| 1:31.3 | most people are better songwriters than me. |
| 1:33.3 | They do it five days a week at least, and I'm like, yeah, let's get in the room |
| 1:38.3 | with this person and with this person, and what's so cool, |
| 1:41.3 | 2020 especially, was working a lot with Clay on a weekly basis. |
| 1:47.0 | At that time, a lot of the people I wrote with were scared to death to be in a room together with one another. |
| 1:52.0 | So we would do face-time calls and Zoom calls or whatever, but something amazing happens when you're in the room with someone who's like-minded |
| 2:02.3 | who is further along in the process than you are you start to pick up on things that |
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