B. Jeffrey Madoff: Why Did You Write Your Book | The Tyler Wagner Show

Why did you write the book? The reason I wrote the book was, uh, so many people said to me, you know, your class is great, but you've got a very small audience, your students. But these are ideas that ought to be shared. I believe ideas, knowledge ought to be shared. So I thought, what's a good way to do that? And I thought a good way to do that is do a book. And I wanted to make the book true to the class experience in a sense that there's my narrative and my career, but embedded in that are examples from the many really great guests that I have had. So there's no— it's not like everything is in agreement. You can hear this point of view here, an opposing point of view there, and then you decide what makes the most sense to you. And each chapter has a kind of workbook where you answer questions. And what a benefit that I, I was hoping people would do that. But a benefit that ended up happening as a result of that is that students or adults who bought the book, I got a number of emails where they were saying, I kept a separate journal of the answers to the questions, I could refer back to it when I finished the book. It's like I had this whole journal. Of my thoughts on whether I should be an entrepreneur, whether I should, you know, because there's nothing the matter, for instance, you know, that your work finances your hobbies and you get your fulfillment from your hobbies or from your friends or your family or whatever. There's no one way to do any of this stuff.