Imitate, Then Innovate

Founder's Journal

Morning Brew

Careers, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Episode 109: On today’s episode, I am going to break down & analyze an essay by one of my good friends & the super popular internet writer, David Perell. David is a prolific content creator, the founder of the super popular writing school Write of Passage, and the host of the writing podcast, How I Write. The essay I’ll be sharing is called Imitate, then Innovate, which explores entrepreneurs & creatives’ desires to be original, why imitation is core to every world-class performer, and why the best way to be original is—ironically—by never actually trying to be original. Original essay: https://perell.com/essay/imitate-then-innovate/ Send us an email and let us know what you think of the idea! [email protected] #FoundersJournal #Startups #Entrepreneur Listen to Founder’s Journal here: https://link.chtbl.com/OV4W93_W Watch Founder’s Journal here: https://www.youtube.com/@FoundersJournal/ Subscribe to Morning Brew! Sign up for free today: https://bit.ly/morningbrewyt Follow The Brew! Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/morningbrew/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/MorningBrew Tik Tok - https://www.tiktok.com/@morningbrew Follow Alex! Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up everyone? Welcome back to another episode of Founders Journal. I'm Alex Lieberman,
0:04.5	co-founder and executive chairman of Morning Brew. Before hopping into the episode, I would love to hear from you.
0:10.5	Shoot me an email and introduce yourself. There is nothing better than
0:14.3	meeting my listeners and learning about them. Just say what up or share a sentence or two about
0:19.6	who you are and I will 100% respond to you. My email is Alex at morningbrew.com. Now let's get to it.
0:27.0	On today's episode I'm going to break down and analyze an essay by one of my good friends and the super popular internet writer David
0:33.8	Peril. David is a prolific content creator, the founder of the very popular
0:38.6	writing school Right of Passage, and the host of a writing podcast called How I Write.
0:43.7	The essay I'll be sharing is called Imitate, then Innovate,
0:46.8	which explores entrepreneurs and creatives desires to be original.
0:51.4	Why Imitation is core to every world-class performer, and why the best way
0:56.3	to be original is ironically enough by never actually trying to be original in the first place.
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