Daniel Pink talks to someone stuck on publishing a 110,000-word book. The advice: stop waiting and push it out. Doubt doesn't disappear once you publish, so the only way forward is to act.
I finished a book. I'm about 110,000 words in, and I have it, and I'm right on that verge of feeling like I want to get it out there, but there's something that keeps still holding me back from—
Okay, can I get in here? Yeah. I'm going to tell you something I told to my daughters when they were younger, and they were like, oh, I don't know if I should apply for this. I don't know whether I should ask to be a research assistant. I don't know if I— I say to them, what would a mediocre guy in your situation do? And it was always like, raise their hand. Believe me, a mediocre guy in your situation who's written 110,000 words would already be out there. So you need to be out there and like doing everything you can to get that book out there so you can be a guest on season 3 of this podcast.
