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Feb 12, 2021 10 tweets 3 min read Read on X
Content strategy, 101

1. Find a topic you’ve learned a lot about in the last two years.

2. Create content for your two-years-ago self.

• Best resources
• 80/20 one-pager
• Common misconceptions
• How you’ve changed since learning

Boom - you’ve built an audience.
And this is the best type of audience to build - group of like-minded people on similar journeys as you, just a few steps behind.

You’ve already solved all of their problems!

Now you share your solutions with them.
And people prefer to learn this way.

It’s way easier to learn from someone barely ahead of you than someone at the top of their field.

And the best time to teach is as you’re learning, no when you’ve got it all figured out.
In Build Once, Sell Twice, @jackbutcher calls this “Being the Bridge”

At any time, there are two groups of people in the world:
• Those you can learn from
• Those you can teach

Your new content strategy:

Seek to be the bridge between these two groups of people.
Some people are worried about turning into a “guru” by sharing their learnings and experience.

But @AliAbdaal put it perfectly in his recent chat with @david_perell:

Be a guide, not a guru.

Gurus are pretenders.

Guides are just a few steps ahead with boots on the ground.
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I'll chalk this one up in the "I have no clue what will be successful on Twitter" camp.

Almost didn't tweet it because I thought I'd said it a few times before.

Good reminder that what's obvious to you can be amazing to others.
If you're an intellectually curious person who loves learning, you can pretty much turn yourself into a business with this strategy.

Learn things.

Package your learnings in a way that is more convenient for others to learn.

Repeat.
Relevant idea to this initial tweet:

"It's almost always better to learn from peers who are 2 years ahead of you than mentors who are 20 years ahead of you.

Life evolves and most insights get outdated."

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I used these 5 dead-simple steps to create a habit I could actually stick to:🧵 Image
By the end of this thread you will have:

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So you can start writing today.

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Journaling.

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I thought it was all hype.

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