Weekly Share: From a Storage Unit to Hollywood in Two Hours

If you read my last post, you may have asked yourself, "can doing something in daily 15 min chunks actually produce anything meaningful?"

The answer is yes. While the blog you're currently reading started this way, my humble efforts may not be enough inspiration to get you to act. Hopefully the creator and writer of the shows "Billions" and "Super Pumped" is more convincing.

Brian Koppelman was a successful music producer when he started to feel, "this is not the life I'm supposed to be living". He looked at his artists and wanted to be them, not produce their work.

He and his friend David Levien decided to spend two hours each morning before work writing - in a glamorous storage unit in Brian's building that barely had room for one chair. Within 4.5 months they had the screenplay for the cult movie "Rounders", considered one of the best gambling movies of all time, and the key to launching two major Hollywood careers. Brian and David are writing partners to this day.

While two hours are not 15 minutes, this does prove that big projects can be built one small piece at a time. If a project you love gains some momentum, who says you won't be able to find two hours a day for it? Brian, a parent with a successful career at the time, did.

If you'd like to hear more from Brian about his journey, creativity, discipline and everything in between, my favorite podcaster Rich Roll had a fascinating conversation with him (Apple, Spotify).

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