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Jason Fried · 2024-05-22 · source ↗ · whole document (6)

Loosen your grip (life, business, and writing)

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place. It nothing's very clear and clean and as it appears. People are making everything up as they go. Nobody knows really what they're doing and but there's this this air of like if you just follow this path it's going to be killer. You're going to be And like I'd pay less attention to that and just do your own thing. Yeah, it's funny as a as somebody who teaches writing I really wanted there to be like a method, a way of doing things that I could find by doing this podcast and then I could like a guru from on high sort of say I have gone and spoken to all the people Yeah. And I will tell you the exact method. And I've learned that there just is no method whatsoever. Everybody's

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different. Everyone's got their own way. There's one thing that stands out. There's just one sentence from how I write all these episodes is you can do whatever you want but whatever it is that you do choose you got to be really really really good at what you do and the only way to do that is to have it be aligned with your nature and who you really are. That's it. You've got to find the nature of things. That's probably the thing that in life I've found to be the most useful tool in anything is like understanding the true or trying to understand the true nature of an experience, of a place, of a thing and rolling with the nature. Anytime you go against the true nature of something you're just battling unnecessarily. So yeah, figure it out. Find out the true nature of you or it or whatever it is

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and and and you're going to find yourself there's a there's going to be more ease. I think you want to get to the place where things do feel easy and we can push ourselves into places that feel hard because we think that it's going to be better if it's harder. Not all the time. Some things you do have to push yourself through to learn something brand new but then again, let up on the grip a little bit and and relax a bit more. I think you'll go further. Great script, man. Awesome. So fun. Awesome, dude. That was really wonderful. That was a great conversation. I haven't talked about writing like this forever.