Jon Acuff: On the Power of Truth, Humor and Craft

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  20 years ago, you wouldn't have gone into blockbuster and rented nine movies and not felt like a loser.

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  Like, even the cashier would have been like, is everything all right, man?

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  I talked to a lot of people who come up to me and they ask, how do I become an author?

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  How do I become a speaker?

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  How do I build a career where I'm writing and speaking and living an extraordinary life and playing with only the people I want to play with and talking and writing about the things that really light me up?

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  And I always think it's kind of funny that that comes to me because I don't consider myself that person yet.

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  I'm very much on the journey.

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  But one person who I do think has really done a great job of building this for himself is today's guest, John Acuff.

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  John is a friend of mine, and you may know him because he's a New York Times best selling author of a number of books, I believe five of them, the latest called Do over.

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  And he transitioned from a pretty mainstream job and now basically writes and speaks, travels the world writing and speaking for a living, talking on stages of all sizes, from dozens of people to tens of thousands of people.

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  And we really dive into his journey in today's conversation and what it's actually like to build that type of career, what his focus on the craft is, what part of it lights him up, what he struggles with, where he's going with all of it.

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  It's a really fun, wide ranging conversation.

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  John is also a massive student of humor and comedy, and we really dive into his exploration of that and how he elevates that to one of the most important things he tries to do in his creative process and in his writing and in his speaking.

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  Really excited to share John Acuff with you.

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  I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.

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  So we're hanging out at GLP HQ, also known as my living room studio, in New York City.

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  We met, I guess, like a month ago.

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  It hasn't been long.

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  In Portland, Oregon, hanging out at a different event.

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  Just started jamming, and immediately I was like, this is a conversation we need to continue.

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