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“Un-distracted” in an Age of Wild Assaults
“To write a great book, you must first become the book.” Naval Ravikant Bob Goff becomes the books he writes. At least, he lives the book before he writes it. Undistracted: Capture Your Purpose Rediscover Your Joy Somehow, Bob freed himself from distractions in his own life to write a book that he hopes will help readers capture their own purpose and joy. Bob oozes authenticity from an oversized personality that spills onto the pages of the books he has written. Going. Blowing. Doing. “When it comes to the words we use, we’re never shooting blanks.” Bob Goff Bob wants to help other people realize the fullest potential in their…
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The Hard Work of Writing in Order to Be Understood
Roman statesman Cicero (106-43 B. C.) said, “The aim of writing is not simply to be understood, but to make it impossible to be misunderstood.” Unlike face-to-face dialogue, the writer must imagine readers of all sorts in various times and places interacting with words written on a page. The words on a page cannot rearrange themselves in order to clarify a point. Neither can the writer know whether the reader reads to the end, or whether the reader reacts to one part of the writing and dismisses the whole. Or whether a reader reacts to something the writer never intended by reading into what he reads. The possibilities of being…
