Dwarkesh Patel: belief

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…The one thing I've learned from doing these books is the 3x rule. However hard you think it's going to be, it's going to be at least three times as hard to do. I started off with really unrealistic expectations on The Prize, but I think the thing that kept me going was just how great the stories are and how important the stories were. I've heard this from multiple historians who have written similar definitive books about their subject. I think Caro said, "I'm going to write this over the summer and then we'll use the book deal to go on vacation afterwards. " I interviewed Richard Rhodes, the author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb. It’s a similar story there, obviously it took longer. I used the advance for The Prize to actually capitalize the company we started, which created an incentive to finish The Prize.…

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