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The Most Successful People I Know Live Boring Lives
But can *you* live a boring life?
7 min readNov 11, 2023
Here’s what you want:
- A big audience (including a HUGE e-mail list)
- 6–7 figure income
- No 9–5 ever again
- A book deal
- Clients begging to work with you
- Business Insider asking to feature you
- A super exciting life full of trips, interesting people, and amazing, unexpected opportunities.
You can totally achieve it, too. If only you’re ready to become the most boring person in the room.
You already know success takes years of hard work.
- Steven Pressfield, author of The War Of Art, didn’t release his debut novel until he reached the age of 52, despite dedicating decades to his craft. For 17 long years, he penned his work without earning a single cent, and it took 27 years before he finally saw his first novel, “The Legend of Bagger Vance,” in print.
- Mark Manson, author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, was blogging for years, then published his first book to disappointing results. Then, “suddenly”, success came.
- Yuval Noah Harari taught his university class for years…