What Skill Should I Learn for 1-2 Hours a Day That Will Help Me Become Successful?

It’s obvious, isn’t it? Writing.

In 2 hours, you can easily write 1,000 words. In Word, about 300 words are a page. That’s 3 pages per day – 1,095 per year.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire has 636 pages. You could write 1.5 novels of that length, just in your first year. The entire HP series is 3,407 pages. That’d take you three years.

Most ebooks on Amazon are a lot shorter. At 3 pages/day you could publish a 90 page ebook every month, or a 45 page ebook every two weeks.

You could also:

  • Write 365 blog posts that rank on Google and attract 100,000 visitors to your website in a year (which I’ve done).
  • Answer 5 questions on Quora every day.
  • Publish 2–3 times a week on Medium.
  • Ghostwrite articles, and later even books.
  • Learn copywriting, which pays a ton of money, once you’re good.
  • Start publishing your own magazine.

In addition, writing will automatically teach you a ton of other things, like:

  • Communication
  • Focus
  • A great vocabulary
  • Creativity
  • Speaking
  • Thinking
  • Research
  • Patience

I hope you’ll give it a try. We need more good writers.

Nik

Niklas Göke writes for dreamers, doers, and unbroken optimists. A self-taught writer with more than a decade of experience, Nik has published over 2,000 articles. His work has attracted tens of millions of readers and been featured in places like Business Insider, CNBC, Lifehacker, and many others. Nik has self-published 2 books thus far, most recently 2-Minute Pep Talks. Outside of his day job and daily blog, Nik loves reading, video games, and pizza, which he eats plenty a slice of in Munich, Germany, where he resides.