Develop Good Writing Habits with Little More Than an Inner Scorecard
How an unlikely documentary about Warren Buffet made me a better writer
Four days ago I watched an HBO documentary about Warren Buffet. If you’re into that sort of thing, it’s REALLY good. If you’re not, no worries, everything you need to know about my experience is written here.
Here we’ve got one of the most-wealthy people on the planet, and regardless of how you feel about him, you can’t dispute his humble beginnings.
Whether it was a paper route, selling soda pop door-to-door, purchasing insurance conglomerates, or testifying before congress, Warren’s only competitor was himself — yesterday.
Warren never cared how other people felt about his decisions. His father taught him the importance of the inner-scorecard. And Warren Buffet, probably more than any person on earth, learned to use that inner-scorecard to grow an empire that now employs over 300,000 people.
When you want to improve something about yourself (in this case, our writing), all we’ve got to do is look inward.
Am I a better writer today than yesterday?
Is the work going in an upward direction?
Are book sales improving or shrinking?
