A couple evenings after launching Should You Date Nate, I stood in my bedroom doing a brief standing meditation. Similar to a practice called zhan zhuang. After a couple minutes, I sensed a peculiar, pleasant energy flowing to me from all directions. And from many, many different sources. As if I were standing in the …
“It’d be nice to be locked in a prison cell,” I thought. I sat in my condo in Boulder, Colorado, facing a television set. Tuned to some blaring nonsense. Papers were strewn about my floor. Outside chirped a world full of distractions. I was pondering productivity. Going deep – mastering something. “If I were locked …
“When I was three years old, my pet squirrel died. And it taught me… ” “Hahaha!” A friend of mine and I were driving to a barbeque lunch in downtown Baltimore. We were mocking all the seminars we’d attended in the weeks prior, where every presenter made the exact same kind of speech. First, they …
In 2008, I flew to Los Angeles and took a shuttle to some hotel, with drugs in my bag and anxiety about my finances stewing in my brain. Writing this almost a decade later, I don’t remember the name of the hotel or which month it was. Heck, I’m fuzzy on the year. Just a …
Back in 2009, I remember driving from Boulder, CO to my relatives in Massachusetts for Thanksgiving. Past endless corn fields, elegant New York woods, and plenty gas stations in between. I was broke and scared Both the conscious and subconscious parts of my brain were wired for fear and panic. Creatively, I was completely shut …
Close to midnight. Thursday, October 12, 2017. Feeling melancholy. I sat on the light rail at Denver International Airport, headed downtown. Finally coming home after almost a month of straight travel. LA… Portland… Vegas… Chicago… Baltimore… Cabo… … and back. On the flight from Cabo to the layover in LA, I talked with a nice …
On Sunday evening, I sat at a 334-year-old restaurant in Cabo, hoping I wouldn’t throw up my meal. Not because I worried about the food. Instead, it was because I’d puked earlier in the day. Right when I was supposed to be doing a consultation for my business. It happened about five minutes after I …
Over 90% of copywriting books suck. I’ve barely read any, but I’m going by Sturgeon’s Law. Here, I’ll save you a Google search: In 1951, a science fiction author by the name of Theodore Sturgeon gave a talk at New York University. After he finished, some twerp student jumped up and declared… “90% of science …
“What the heck do I write, to attract a woman?” I asked myself. I had no idea. When I first began writing the toughest salesletter of my life, my advertising had already sold over one million dollars of products online. I knew how to shock people into paying attention to a message about their health. …