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Always an Apprentice · The Daily Writer

• 0:07
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Daily Rider, where we share a lesson each day to help you cultivate the habits for creative success.
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  SPEAKER_00: These lessons are inspired by great artists, authors, and thinkers, both past and present.
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  SPEAKER_00: For more, you can visit us at dailywriterlife.com.
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  SPEAKER_00: Picture yourself as a third grader.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's May and you have two weeks of school left.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's warm outside, and all you can think about is a fun-filled summer full of sprinklers, fireworks, and ice cream.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yet you sit here at this uncomfortable desk, listening to the teacher droning on and on about some lesson in math or history or science.
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  SPEAKER_00: You'd rather be anywhere but here.
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  SPEAKER_00: We never quite escape this impulse of wanting to be done with our education.
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  SPEAKER_00: We move on to middle school, high school, most likely college, and perhaps grad school.
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  SPEAKER_00: With every level, there is a sense in which we just want to be done so we can move on with our lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: This doesn't change even when you get to the doctoral level.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ask any PhD student in the middle of their dissertation, and they'll likely say, I just want to be done with this thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the kind of attitude most people expect from formal education where we follow a prescribed path somebody else has laid out for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now there's lots of benefits to formal education, but nothing compares to the curriculum you create for yourself.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you want to grow as a writer or as an artist, you have to change your mindset about learning.
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  SPEAKER_00: Learning is a privilege, not an obligation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Learning can happen anywhere, not just in a prescribed institution.
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  SPEAKER_00: Learning is the match that lights the fire of passion and purpose, not the bucket of water that drowns it out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ernest Hemingway once said, We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
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  SPEAKER_00: We must take time to learn every day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whether it's a book, podcast, course, video, mastermind, or some other learning opportunity, it's absolutely vital that you make it a priority.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even just a few minutes of learning each day can change the whole course of your life in just one short year.
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  SPEAKER_00: You might have a master's degree, but you never truly become a master.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are always an apprentice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks so much for listening to the Daily Writer Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: We really appreciate you tuning in today.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can find more at dailywriterlife.com.