How Jerry Seinfeld Writes a Joke a Day
If you want success, you need to write more. And if you want to write more, you need a strategy.
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4 min readFeb 2, 2024
If you want success, you need to write more. And if you want to write more, you need a strategy.
Jerry Seinfeld is one of the most successful comedians ever, without question. Seinfeld was the most popular show on television during its heyday. In the year 1998, he made $267 million. That was just in ONE year.
Obviously, he has a lot of talent.
He’s had some lucky breaks, too.
And while you and I might not be blessed with the same talent and can only pray for the same luck, there’s one thing Seinfeld did that all of us can do. There’s a formula to his success that we can copy. He worked his tail off! For years and as far as I am aware he still writes one joke a day, without fail.
Want to know how he does it? Three principles you can steal today:
- He’s trained himself to see everything as material
- He’s obsessed with “the chain”
- He’s committed to the joy of the process
