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No One is Ever a Master · The Daily Writer

• 0:09
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Daily Rider Podcast, where we share a lesson each day to help you cultivate the habits for creative success.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_00: Picture yourself as a third grader.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_00: It's May and you have two weeks of school left.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_00: It's warm outside, and all you can think about is a fun-filled summer full of sprinklers, fireworks, and ice cream.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_00: Yet here you sit at this uncomfortable desk listening to the teacher droning on and on about some lesson in math or history or science.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_00: You'd rather be anywhere but here.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_00: Well, we never quite escape this impulse of wanting to be done with our education.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_00: We move on to middle school, high school, most likely college, and perhaps even grad school.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_00: With every level, there's a sense in which we just want to be done so we can get on with our lives.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_00: Well, this doesn't change even if you get to the doctoral level.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_00: If you ask any PhD student in the middle of their dissertation, they're likely going to say, I just want to be done with this thing.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_00: That's the kind of attitude most people expect from formal education, where we follow a prescribed path that somebody else has laid out for us.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_00: Now, there's lots of benefits to formal education, and I was a college professor for 17 years, so I should know, but nothing compares to the curriculum that you create for yourself.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_00: If you want to grow as a writer or as an artist, you have to change your mindset about learning.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_00: Learning is a privilege, not an obligation.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_00: Learning can happen anywhere, not just in a prescribed institution.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_00: Learning is the match that lights the fire of passion and purpose in your life.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_00: It's not the bucket of water that drowns it out.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_00: As Ernest Hemingway once said, we are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_00: We must take time to learn every single day.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_00: Whether it's a book, a podcast, a course, a video, a mastermind, or some other kind of learning opportunity, it's absolutely vital that you make it a priority.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_00: Even just a few minutes of learning every day can change the whole course of your life in just one short year.
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_00: You might have a master's degree, but you never truly become a master.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_00: You're always an apprentice.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_00: So what are you learning today?
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks so much for listening to today's episode.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_00: I want to take a moment to let you know about our daily writer membership community.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_00: You know, one of the very best ways to develop better habits and impact more people's lives with your writing is to spend time around other successful writers.
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_00: So if you're tired of feeling isolated and chasing success on your own, then I know you're going to love the Daily Writer community.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_00: For years, I searched for the kind of writing community that I would want to join, but I can never find what I wanted, so I created my own.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_00: Some of the features include weekly writing sprints, monthly community calls, book discussions, calls with guest experts, and much more.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_00: For more info, you can visit dailywriterlife.comslash community.
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks, and I'll see you tomorrow.