Goodreads asked Danny Iny:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Danny Iny First of all, there's something magical about being able to transcribe your thoughts essentially and sharing them with someone else across space, across time, across all kinds of barriers. It’s like assisted telepathy, which is awesome.

But another thing I also appreciate about the process is that, as much as you write when you feel like you have an insight or inspiration worth sharing and it would be valuable to other people, you feel like you've understood something to a certain degree.

The act of writing confronts you with the reality that you have understood it as well as you thought, and forces you to dig much, much deeper into your thinking and to organize your thinking, do additional research, and truly understand it at a much deeper level.

With Leveraged Learning, especially, it's been gratifying that the big ideas are things that I've been believing and feeling for years, and it’s been a struggle to explain to people in a way that was compelling because I wasn't doing the work to connect the dots for them the way they connected in my head. Writing the book forced me to dig deep enough to be able to actually do that, which was valuable.

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