Hi, I'm Essie Cup, and I've spent my career interviewing people about politics, presidential elections, and some really tough breaking news.

But now I need a break, and I think you do too.

So on my new podcast, Off the Cup,

I'll still be interviewing people,

usually famous and most likely my friends.

But about life, you know, the stuff that consumes us

when we're not consumed by politics?

So come join me every Wednesday for some conversational self-care.

Listen to Off the Cup on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your favorite

shows.

Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I-Heart Radio.

Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is that you can't edit a blank page.

So if you are writing something, just go ahead and get something down,

because you can always make it better if you have something to work with.

Today's tip is a version of a quote from Cass Sunstein, a professor at Harvard Law School and a prolific author.

He was interviewed by Penn Professors Angela Duckworth and Katie Milkman.

The topic of their interview was behavioral science and public policy, but Duckworth and

Moteman couldn't resist the opportunity to ask his secret to writing so much. His response, you can't edit a blank page. He continued,

sometimes I think to myself I have a project and I don't have any words and there's nothing for me to edit.

So why don't I put words and then I'll have something I can edit.

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