Skill to learn: Copywriting Schedule: Full-time

  • Some good time in the morning (3 hours) and afternoon (1-2 hours).

How to learn it?

  • hand-copying (for a week
  • spend time on metalearning
  • learn all kinds of projects (email, landing page, etc.)
  • pick real products to write for
  • create processes and systems for output
  • How to grade myself

techniques

  • Recall
  • Feynman technique
  • Spaced repetition
  • Study routiens

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” - Abraham Lincoln

Why do you want to learn this skill?

  • I want to make it a source of income.

Focus on skills that get paid.

Course

  • Finding the right course for your skill level with the right target for completion is key.
  • course that has super actionable outputs.
  • tweaking whatever course I use to create a better kind of portfolio. A portfolio of successes.

Gary Halbert’s own path to turning anyone into a world-class copywriter in 30 days.

charting a course to blend his classical education with a modern copy education.

But life is short, so I think you should do hard things. And writing financial copy keeps coming up as the hardest.

References

https://www.timbrianbrady.com/category/copywriting/copy-challenge/