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Redefine What Failure Means · The Daily Writer

• 0:09
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Daily Writer, where we share a lesson each day to help you cultivate the habits for creative success.
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  SPEAKER_00: As writers, we have a lot of different ways to measure success and failure.
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  SPEAKER_00: More often than not, the first place we look for validation is from external sources.
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  SPEAKER_00: Were we successful as that other writer?
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  SPEAKER_00: Did the client hire us for that gig?
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  SPEAKER_00: Did our book launch go as planned?
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  SPEAKER_00: Do our social media followers keep growing and engaging with us?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, if the answer to any of those is yes, then we automatically feel like an awesome success.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_00: But what if you still did the work and yet none of those things happened?
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  SPEAKER_00: Does that mean you failed?
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  SPEAKER_00: The Hollywood screenwriter and producer Brian Koppelman gives us a helpful way of looking at success and failure.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_00: He said, failure is a huge part of any writer's life.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_00: So you have to redefine the term so that any day you write is a success.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, there are two big advantages to redefining success this way.
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  SPEAKER_00: First of all, it puts success totally within your control every single day.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you write that day, it means you were successful.
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  SPEAKER_00: Second, it puts the focus on daily writing, which is the source of all your other results when it comes to your writing.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're not getting the writing done, nothing else matters.
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  SPEAKER_00: The marketing doesn't matter, the social media stuff doesn't really matter.
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  SPEAKER_00: The agents and the publishers, none of that stuff matters if you're not actually getting the writing done, because the writing is what makes everything else happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: The daily writing is the engine for all your other success.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_00: So don't let other people or other external factors tell you whether you're successful.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_00: Focus on doing the writing so you can feel like a success every single day.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks so much for listening to today's episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: For more, you can visit us at dailywriterlife.com.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks, and I'll see you tomorrow.