Morgan Housel is the former finance columnist at The Wall Street Journal and The Motley Fool. He authored the best-selling book, “Psychology of Money”.
In an article on Collaborative fund, Morgan shared few ideas on writing. And they were amazingly simple and powerful.
I took note of the most compelling ideas which are worth sharing. I hope these will help you to level up your writing.
You have five seconds to get people’s attention
No matter what you are writing, books, blogs, emails if you couldn’t capture the attention of people in the first few seconds you are doomed. People don’t have any more time for your writing. They will simply bounce back.
Good ideas are easy to write, bad ideas are hard
According to Morgan, the difficulty is a quality signal. When you feel difficult to write about something that means you are not prepared to write that. You will suck at it. Eventually, your idea will seem to be a bad one. Instead, choose something that you can write dozens of pages about. Declutter some words from it. And you will be left with a brilliant…
