Video ID: nwny-LL-nQM
YouTube URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwny-LL-nQM
Added At: 17-06-25 19:50:12
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Sentiment: Positive
Categories: Self-Help, Education
Tags: motivation, productivity, writing, success, overcoming challenges
Summary
• The speaker shares their experience of faking being a writer for several years, pretending to write books and attend famous writers' gatherings. • They eventually realized they needed to find someone to fight for, which led them to focus on building an empire through writing and speaking. • The speaker emphasizes the importance of finding motivation to overcome challenges and achieve success.
Transcript
There was probably two or three years I was faking being a writer. All the famous places the writers went. I would go there and I'd order a quasant and I look around, everyone has laptops and they're all typing and drinking their coffee and I was like, I'm here. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. And then I just kind of add myself. This goes on week after week, month after month. I can no longer afford my rent. I move in with my then girlfriend. She would go and work so hard every day knowing that I was at home writing this book and I've been faking it for several weeks. She comes in to go to bed that night and I hadn't cleared off the bed and that's where my bills were and she didn't know I was going in bankruptcy. I see the woman I love sleeping under the weight of my bills. It hurt so much. I was like, you know what? I got to get this done. So, I wrote and I wrote and I wrote 18 days later. Boom. Book is done. Bam. Number one on Amazon. Bam. Bam. Bam. Bam. Six books. Number one on every list imaginable. Millions of copies. build this huge empire of courses and memberships and eight big seminars a year all around the country for 15 years straight. And here's why. You need to find someone to fight for. If you're broke, you're fighting for survival. If you're going to break through, you're fighting for somebody