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writing & living books
Hey friend,
Writing has been the most impactful process on my life.
I started daily, morning pages in 2020.
And started writing publicly, daily, at the end of last year.
And I am currently writing 2 books.
One book pretty much done on alternative education for young people, which will be out in the next couple of months.
And another one of how to grow an online education business with a book.
It’s an incredible process, the process of writing. Whether on morning pages, that I throw out, or to an email list, and especially the process of writing a book to share with the world, its significant.
And a process can bring up a lot in the individual. A lot of address, receive & release.
One thing that I am have discovered with the process of writing a book, is that you just need to commit to a block of writing everyday. Commit to getting the words out of yourself each day. Sometimes it flows, some days its rough, but I get the words out either way.
It’s in the process of a writing, a book or whatever, that you find the words. The book reveals itself in the process of writing the book.
And in the same way, life reveals itself in the process of my commitment and decision to live life to certain standard.
In 2022, while in the Canary islands, I was given a reading by some cute dutch astrology girl, (who was doing her thesis on Jung’s Black Books) while I was getting a tattoo in a buddy’s house, she left me with her business card that I keep with me to this day, it sits on my bedside table as we speak.
On the back of it is a quote from Carl Jung that says,
“Our life is the truth that we seek. My life is the path for those who come after me. Only my life is my truth, the truth above all. We create the truth by living it. Only in retrospect life becomes the truth. We do not find the truth first and then live it, but the other way around.”
That pretty much sums it up for me. In writing books, and in the living of them.
-Jay
Jay Topp is a 24 year old writer, marketer, film maker & self-led educator originally from Australia, now based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. You can see his films here. Instagram here. And his business website here.
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