A month with no new books, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, my first chatbots, day 192 of the writing marathon, and the insight that price sets the result.
1) Best book
This month I didn’t read anything new or interesting. I’m finishing the books I’ve already recommended to you. I’ll be honest about that.
2) Films and series
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood with Tom Hanks is the best film I’ve seen this past quarter. It’s so life-affirming and deep that I want to rewatch it in a couple of months.
3) Most useful video
I started listening to Taras Chmut on YouTube. I’d heard of the Come Back Alive foundation before, but I hadn’t followed Taras in the media. His level of clear thinking and his read on the situation genuinely surprised me. Now I’m looking forward to new interviews.
4) Skill I worked on
Making video to a script. I’m currently taking a course together with Paula, where we have to film and publish a video every day. We have a set structure: a hook at the start, something useful in the middle, a call to move to the first step of the funnel.
This isn’t my natural kind of content. I never did it this way in my previous 2 years of blogging, but I decided to trust the new approach and spend 6 weeks trying new things.
I feel like a home shopping channel salesman.
5) Hypothesis I got to test
Chatbots really do make an author’s life easier. For the first time I tried building a flow where a person writes me a keyword and the bot sends them a link to a video.
It simplifies my life a lot, because in the last 3 days alone I received more than 500 messages with that keyword.
I use a service called manychat, and it’s free.
6) Habit I worked on
Writing texts to a defined structure. I’m continuing my writing marathon and I’m on day 192 of it. Every single day, without a break, a new text post goes out. Writing has become not just easy, but incredibly easy. Like breathing. First you just do it however it comes out, and then it starts coming out better and faster.
Right now a daily post takes me about 15-20 minutes.
7) Main insight of the month
People get good results when they’ve paid a high price. I can’t say it’s a fundamentally new thought, but this month I became fully convinced of it in practice.
The course I took this month costs around $1,000. When you pay real money, you take the lessons seriously and you do the homework regularly.
Now I understand why two people can join the very same program (one at full price, the other for free as a favour) and walk out with completely different results.
The level of our investment determines how seriously we’ll treat the product and what result we’ll end up with.
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