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Matt Larson

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Writing and Learning

When you write your first book, there is a lot to learn. What no one tells you is how much of that learning comes after writing it.

It's been a busy month discussing 4000s by 40, working through what book project to dive into next, and building a more formal daily writing process so I continue to move the needle forward. Like writing, every bit of what comes after takes practice. Speaking engagemen Read more of this blog post »
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Published on May 18, 2025 06:09 Tags: book-journey, learning, writing-life

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“. . . None of us are born as passive generic blobs waiting for the world to stamp its imprint on us. Instead we show up possessing already a highly refined and individuated soul.

Another way of thinking of it is: We're not born with unlimited choices.

We can't be anything we want to be.

We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.

Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.”
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I met Keith at the AMC Awards Ceremony this past April and we exchanged books—I'm glad we did! Keith's book does a great job sharing what the experience of climbing the 4000-footers is like and gives you plenty of laughs. I really enjoyed it. For a l ...more
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" Thanks for the tip and the review, Andy. And congrats on completing the 48! That's fantastic. Of all the 48, the tripyramids are the two I really feel ...more "
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What's great about this book is that it takes you into the experience of what it was like to be one of the guys in an airborne unit during WW2. It puts you in their shoes. There's no one particular event that anchors the book, but it runs through a s ...more
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“Mountains are different and unique from anything else you will face in life in that they are the truest, cleanest representative of life’s challenges in physical form. There is no mistaking the end goal, and there is no mistaking who got you there. You have to count on you, and your arrival at the summit is the simplest and most honest achievement for your soul that you can experience.”
Matt Larson, 4000s by 40: Tackling Middle Age in the Mountains of New Hampshire

“. . . None of us are born as passive generic blobs waiting for the world to stamp its imprint on us. Instead we show up possessing already a highly refined and individuated soul.

Another way of thinking of it is: We're not born with unlimited choices.

We can't be anything we want to be.

We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.

Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.”
Steven Pressfield, The War of Art

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