After all, if the ultimate goal of a book is to share your knowledge and ideas with the world, is there another way to record this wisdom without having to physically write it down yourself? Of course there’s another way to share knowledge and wisdom: by talking. Talking is the most natural way to communicate ideas and information between humans. We’ve been talking for at least 150,000 years, but we’ve only been writing for about 10,000 of those. Think about people with dyslexia. Some of the smartest, most accomplished people on earth—Richard Branson, for example— can barely write an email. Branson is not stupid, nor is anyone else just because they have dyslexia. Those with dyslexia are never able to efficiently develop writing and reading functions. Simply put, some human brains are not optimized to read or write text, but we are all optimized to talk and listen. Richard Branson can’t write, but he can absolutely talk. In fact, most of human knowledge throughout antiquity was shared and recorded through oral history. For most people, talking is easier than writing, but that still leaves the work of turning the talking into a book. Is there a way for a person to talk about their wisdom and ideas, instead of writing them down, and use that talking as the basis for the book? Yes, of course there is, and people have been leveraging this method throughout history. Here’s a very short list of people whose words still move the world, yet they never wrote anything down: • Socrates never wrote anything down, Plato recorded his words. hOW TO WriTE yOUr firST DrAfT (ThE SCriBE METhOD) · 151