Tim Ferriss on writitng for Sharp Thinking

Summary Key Points:

• Write to freeze your thoughts and look at them in a different way whenever you want

• lawyers are great at that as they are trained and skilled at looking and thinking about every word and its' meaning

• writing is rewriting

• 2 scrappy pages per day minimum of writing, brain vomit, worthless

  • then revise them in at least 3 rounds, first for yourself, second round of edits, for his fans who would love it, third round for the critics who will be twisting everything
  • ask people to highlights parts that are unclear
  • if something makes you wonder highlight it
  • if you doubt it take it out
  • indicate the 10% I should keep no matter what
  • if I had to cut 10% what would you cut
  • Writing systematically and revising systematically will help you in becoming a good and skilled writer
  • Writing is the most important practice