How to Publish a Lot of Books with @MarcGuberti

About this video

Dale Roberts recaps his interview with prolific young author, podcaster, and entrepreneur Marc Guberti, host of the Breakthrough podcast, on how he produces so many books, blog posts, and podcasts. Guberti says his output is based on the time he puts in: he wakes around 3:30 in the morning so he can read five to ten pages each from about ten books that have had a big impact on him (including works by Brian Tracy and T. Harv Eker) before a focused block of one to two hours of writing starting around 4 a.m. He also writes blog posts on his smartphone during commutes and other moments away from his computer, turning dead time into drafting time instead of scrolling for entertainment. He has cut the habits that competed with the work: he says he watches maybe four hours of television a week and no longer plays video games at home, reserving home time for family or work, because there is no room for procrastination. Dale stresses that Guberti learned some of these tactics by interviewing other productive people. Guberti himself declines to call his discipline the best, noting different disciplines work for different people, but he likes where his is taking him.

Key takeaways

• Protect an early writing block: Guberti wakes around 3:30 a.m., reads five to ten pages from each of about ten influential books, then writes for one to two hours from around 4 a.m.
• Draft anywhere: writing blog posts on a smartphone during commutes turns dead time into production instead of passive scrolling
• Cut competing habits deliberately: he limits television to maybe four hours a week and does not play video games at home, keeping home time for family or work
• Volume is a time-allocation result, not a secret trick: his backlog across books, blogs, and podcasts comes from consistently putting in more hours than most people
• Interview productive people to steal tactics: Dale notes Guberti picked up approaches like phone drafting by interviewing others, and Guberti cautions that different disciplines suit different people

Episode details: published April 9, 2018 · 3:47 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Dale L. Roberts’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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