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WRITING / MEDIUM RARE
The Medium IKEA Effect— Before You Sign Up For Writing Courses
Or… Building something yourself, how to run really fast, and why you shouldn’t be taken in by the promises of writing courses, yet…
4 min readAug 15, 2022
Table Of Contents
The One ‘Basic’ Skill That You Need
↳ Sprinting towards the finish line
↳ Before you ‘sprint’ into writing courses
↳ So, you mentioned IKEA?
↳ Build it, and they will come
The One ‘Basic’ Skill That You Need
Writing courses miss out on the one basic skill that you need to become better at writing —the people who run the courses know this and have been through this, and that is why they are running the system.
Let’s look at sprinting first — The art of running at pace in a race or for pleasure.
Sprinting towards the finish line
Everybody can run — some better than others.
As children, we didn’t start off by thinking.
“Hmm, I want to learn the important skill of running. Let me read about it, or talk to people about it.”