Well,” you might wonder, “even if you don’t get a bonus from Christmas, December is still a month like any other right? Even if you already know all the content of your book, you’ll still have to do some real thinking about how to present that knowledge in a way that will engage your reader. Fun to complete ( in under an hour), this book becomes a truly meaningful gift once your words are added.

It works in a LOT of arenas: lecture halls, television studios, podcasts, boardrooms, media pages, special events, even people’s minds.This one isn’t strictly a fuckup that I could have avoided, but it fucked me up enough that I need to mention it in this post-mortem, plus it relates to “for the love of God, don’t publish in December.

Yet, while the opportunity for such public recognition is a career highlight for many people, there are some that don’t want to be recognised at all. It was me and my partners 2 year anniversary a week ago and I bought him this alongside some other bits. All used books might have various degrees of writing, highliting and wear and tear and possibly be an ex-library with the usual stickers and stamps. Bright, spirited, and a perfect Valentine’s Day, anniversary, or anytime gift that’s one of a kind because the words are as unique as the recipient.Finally, if you’re considering writing a book, you’ll need to accept the fact that you’ll have to do a lot of learning and thinking—even if you’re writing about something you know a lot about. As you guys might remember, I'm the fencing dude who wrote a book a short while ago, and you guys were incredibly kind and motivational about it when I posted about it.

I don’t know how to measure that value, but I do know that a book is one of the absolute best ways to scale your influence on other people and create a real impact in the world. I have a library full of books just from Scribe alone, and many of those Authors have made a lot of money because of what their book did for them professionally. The BEST strategy for a book, the one that led to all those success stories I told you about, is to reach a niche audience.

In most cases, it’s the other way around: people get famous for something else (politics, business, acting, sports, etc. Its numbers keep going down since the red wedding, and now I know it peaked early and unexceptionally like a high school quarterback.

If you’re even 40 or 45% of the way up the knowledge ladder of your field, all the people who are lower on that ladder could benefit from what you’ve learned.There are probably 500 other people out there who could have taught me the same things, but Cameron is the only one who had a great book I could read, to decide that he was the guy to teach me.