If you have thought about writing a book but haven’t taken that nudge too seriously, now is the time to begin. Writing a book yields a significant return on your investment of time and will help you become a better man in a lot of ways.
Here are ways that writing a book — whether or not it gets published — helps you become the strongest version of you.
Increased Confidence
Having a message that you share in the form of a book can give you renewed confidence. Though when it comes to writing a book, only a fraction of one percent of all people who attempt to do it ever hit publish. If you do take the time to write a book, the confidence it gives you is incredible.
Most men find themselves with the lingering feeling that they should be doing something more significant and impressive with their lives, which sets them apart in their careers, lives and families. Writing a book can be one thing, like earning a degree and finishing a marathon, that builds your confidence. The mere fact that you can complete such a daunting task can boost your sense of accomplishment and self-worth.
Clarity of Purpose
Writing a book helps you gain clarity about who you are and what you stand for. In an age where it’s hard to stand out as unique, spending the time to clarify your message can help elevate your voice among your readers, prospective employers, and your family.
Having to spend the time to think about the content of the book helps you to know where you stand out from the crowd. As men, our sense of purpose helps us guide our decisions in our jobs, our choices in community participation, and where we ultimately leave a legacy. Writing a book can help to refine that purpose and leave a lasting impact on countless others.
Build Deeper Connections
Having a book can help you to grow your network. Once you become an author, you can start to connect with people that you might not have had access to before writing a book.
Being a published author gives you something to discuss and have an opinion about that will help you make more meaningful connections with those who read your book and people in your field of expertise or circle of friends. Closer, more meaningful relationships is a rewarding by-product of writing a book.
Increased Credibility
Writing a book, unlike many other accomplishments, can give you instant credibility in multiple ways. Since books have existed as a sign of authority for centuries, you are seen differently by your peers, other experts, and by the media.
Earning an advanced degree in university can give you credibility, but it takes significantly more time and effort than writing a book. So few people ever accomplish this task who have gone to college. Books are the new business card. Think of what might happen if you sent a copy of your book in advance of that next job interview. It would certainly give you a leg up over your competition.
It can also allow you to showcase your beliefs and values. Having other accomplishments can boost your credibility but none as quickly as a book.
Communicate More Clearly
Most men have not spent significant time writing something longer than a term paper since high school or college beyond emails or text. Sure, perhaps for work, you have written reports, or sales copy, or even extended detailed information about your business.
But, writing 20,000 words or more will help you become better overall with your communication skills. Most authors have to write and rewrite to get their book ready for publication, and that work enables you to improve your overall writing ability.
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