People
Seth Godin

Seth Godin photo

Seth Godin Quotes

Total quotes: 1

Seth Godin photo

Seth Godin

Birthname

Birthday: July 10, 1960

Birthplace: Mount Vernon, New York, United States

Educated At: Stanford University, Tufts University

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Entrepreneur, Economist, Blogger, Computer Scientist, Writer

Total quotes: 1

“No one ever gets talker's block. No one wakes up in the morning, discovers he has nothing to say and sits quietly, for days or weeks, until the muse hits, until the moment is right, until all the craziness in his life has died down. Why then, is writer's block endemic?

The reason we don't get talker's block is that we're in the habit of talking without a lot of concern for whether or not our inane blather will come back to haunt us. Talk is cheap. Talk is ephemeral. Talk can be easily denied. We talk poorly and then, eventually (or sometimes), we talk smart. We get better at talking precisely because we talk. We see what works and what doesn't, and if we're insightful, do more of what works. How can one get talker's block after all this practice?

Writer's block isn't hard to cure. Just write poorly. Continue to write poorly, in public, until you can write better.”

— Seth Godin, Talker's Block

Tagged: Writing, Psychology, Philosophy, Breakdown = Breakthrough

loading next page...