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What are the pieces of advice you find yourself coming back to again and again? Ryan talks with bestselling author and ESPN writer Seth Wickersham about three quotes he keeps beside his laptop and why they continue to shape the way he approaches his work and life.

📚 Books:
Be On That Hill by Seth Wickersham
It’s Better To Be Feared by Seth Wickersham
American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback by Seth Wickersham

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Seth Wickersham is a senior writer at ESPN and the New York Times bestselling author of Be On That Hill, It’s Better to Be Feared: The New England Patriots Dynasty and the Pursuit of Greatness, American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback. Focusing primarily on longform enterprise and investigative work on the National Football League, Wickersham has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Reporting, and his stories have been anthologized in the Best American Magazine Writing, the Best American Sports Writing, and Next Wave: America’s New Generation of Great Literary Journalists, among others. Released in 2021, It’s Better to Be Feared was named Nonfiction Book of the Year by Sports Illustrated and Best Sports Book by the National Sports Media Association.

Follow Seth: X & Instagram: @Seth.Wickersham

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No amount of prosperity, no amount of difficulty is certain or forever. A triumph becomes a trial. A trial becomes a triumph. Life can change in an instant.

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The clocks have been changed. Summer is gone. Fall is here, and winter is on its way.

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Check out his podcast the Side Hustle School and more of his work at chrisguillebeau.com

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We are lucky to get to do these things. Let’s think and act like it.

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Our job today and tomorrow is the same as it’s always been—to be good, to be wise, to stand up for what’s right, to resist what is wrong and evil. Nothing changes that.

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