The host shares his struggles with reading during his school days, playing football as practice, and how his podcast, The School of Greatness, became a top podcast.
The author talks about discovering his writing skills and how it takes hard work and grinding to become a good writer. He emphasizes the influence of chance encounters and luck and talks about how he started writing for the Molly Fool by sending a draft to a coworker.
The speaker explains how he trained himself to improve his writing by breaking down and analyzing the work of authors like Nabokov and Donald Hall, spending hours dissecting paragraphs to understand why certain word choices and transitions were made.
A brief recollection of a conference or talk for college journalists, in which an individual comments on the intelligence of someone present.
The speaker reflects on his past challenges, including homelessness, and shares a tool he used to cope with difficult times. He also offers a reminder that everything will be okay in the end.