David Epstein

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Passion Struck with John R. Miles · You Don't Need More Freedom. You Need Better Constraints | David Epstein - EP 818 · 10 Sep 2026 podcast

And to do it fast, right?

This made me realize how bands can break out and then have a terrible sophomore album because it's like

somehow people think they just figured out how to do what they do ten times faster.

And so I think what was helpful for me was to go in another direction, basically.

So my first book was very grounded in physical science and then range was in the social sciences.

And so it really felt like something different to me.

And there was enough of a tweak that I didn't feel like I was just

competing with exactly what I'd done before.

А не вид інсайд ⁇ the box.

I think what really helped me get over that mental hump.

Was an experiment where I said, look, I need to be more efficient in my writing projects.

So I forced myself to outline the book on one page and one page only from a hundred thousand word note sheet.

I actually have this I took a hundred thousand words down to this one page outline.

You can see I wrote as small as humanly possible, but it's like bubbles and arrows all over the place.

But it forced me to ruthlessly prioritize and it forced me to come up with this structure where I have a repetitive story that keeps coming up in the text and I have linked chapters.

And that structural experiment.

I found so engaging.

But it took away some of the anxiety of

Can I do the same thing again, but better?

And got me so focused on just this engaging experiment where I was trying something new with my writing.

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