David Perell—Write to Find Yourself (EP.119)

David Perell is prolific writer and online educator, who runs a writing school called “Write of Passage”. David also hosts the “The North Star Podcast” featuring interviews with writers, athletes, and entrepreneurs.

Important Links:

• Website: https://perell.com/
  
• Writing School: https://writeofpassage.school/
  
• Friday Finds Links: https://perell.com/friday-finds-links/
  
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/david_perell
  

Show Notes:

• Origins of “Write of Passage”
  
• Writing leads to thinking
  
• David’s ever expanding portfolio
  
• Live the life that you teach
  
• Applying lessons from Disneyland to a writing course
  
• Four Seasons of writing education
  
• Ana’s success with David’s course
  
• Writing as a career transition
  
• Average course cohort age
  
• Building a personal monopoly
  
• Advice for an aspiring creator
  
• Dive into the work of the people you admire
  
• Managing fear of creating in public
  
• The network age
  
• Building a product for high-schoolers
  
• Finding your tribe on the internet
  
• Going against the trend with long-form essays
  
• Checklists and prescriptions
  
• The cover band strategy for investing
  
• Building an internet native education system
  
• Schools stifling creativity
  
• The Never-Ending Now
  

Books Mentioned:

• Zero to One; by Peter Thiel
  
• One Summer: America, 1927; by Bill Bryson
  
• The Status Game; by Will Storr
  
• Invest Like the Best; by Jim O'Shaughnessy