David Perell says consistency in writing requires patience, friends who edit your work, and an online community that holds you accountable. Finding people who share your intellectual curiosity turns solitary work into collaboration.
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And so if you are struggling with the path of consistency and you know that this is gonna be a long road that's gonna require patience, the best thing you can do is find friends to do it with. Those friends, they can be your editors, they can be your conversation partners. And what happens when you write on the internet is you find other people who get as excited about those ideas as you do. And both of us can push each other because we're there together. Whereas often when you're alone, you can talk yourself into laziness. And as you write on the internet, the people who are going to reach out to you will astonish you in terms of how much they share your intellectual curiosity versus the average person in your life.