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The dangers of the entitlement mindset for budding authors

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Wilko van de Kamp
Jan 13, 2022
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The entitlement mindset is possibly one of the largest roadblocks that can hold you back from success in all areas of life. Unfortunately many budding authors have this mindset. And it’s robbing them from the possible chance achieving actual success from their book writing journey. So what on earth is this mindset? And what does it have to do with writing books? Let’s have a closer look…

A while back I launched my Write a Book in a Week program. This is an online learning experience where I teach people the exact system that I use for writing a book, finding a publishing home for it and eventually making it a bestseller. I take them by the hand and show them exactly how I do it for my own books, which have become number one bestsellers on Amazon. I’m quite a perfectionist, and turning my experiences into a program to teach my methods to others took me longer than I expected. It also costed me quite a few dollars to set it up in an online format and get it going. And then something funn…

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