How Famed Explorer Wade Davis Taught Himself to Write | The Tim Ferriss Show
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Wade Davis (@wadedavisofficial, daviswade.com) is Professor of Anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia. Between 2000 and 2013, he served as Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society. Named by the NGS as one of the Explorers for the Millennium, he has been described as “a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet, and passionate defender of all of life’s diversity.”
An ethnographer, writer, photographer, and filmmaker, Wade holds degrees in anthropology and biology and a PhD in ethnobotany, all from Harvard University. Mostly through the Harvard Botanical Museum, he spent over three years in the Amazon and Andes as a plant explorer, living among 15 indigenous groups while making some 6000 botanical collections. His work later took him to Haiti to investigate folk preparations implicated in the creation of zombies, an assignment that led to his writing The Serpent and the Rainbow, an international bestseller, later released by Universal as a motion picture. In recent years, his work has taken him to East Africa, Borneo, Nepal, Peru, Polynesia, Tibet, Mali, Benin, Togo, New Guinea, Australia, Colombia, Vanuatu, Mongolia, and the high Arctic of Nunavut and Greenland.
Wade is the author of 375 scientific and popular articles and 23 books including One River, The Wayfinders, Into the Silence, and Magdalena. His photographs have been widely exhibited and have appeared in 37 books and 130 magazines, including National Geographic, Time, Geo, People, Men’s Journal, and Outside. He was curator of “The Lost Amazon: The Photographic Journey of Richard Evans Schultes,” first exhibited at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. In 2012 he served as guest curator of “No Strangers: Ancient Wisdom in the Modern World,” at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles. He was curator of “Everest: Ascent to Glory,” Bowers Museum, February 12-August 28, 2022. National Geographic has published two collections of his photography: Light at the Edge of the World (2001) and Wade Davis: Photographs (2018).
His 40 film credits include Light at the Edge of the World, an eight-hour documentary series written and produced for National Geographic. His most recent film, El Sendero de la Anaconda, a 90-minute feature documentary shot in the Northwest Amazon, is available on Netflix.
Wade, one of 20 Honorary Members of the Explorers Club, is Honorary Vice President of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and recipient of 12 honorary degrees. In 2016, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. In 2018 he became an Honorary Citizen of Colombia.
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Those who can’t do, teach. 😮
My thoughts EXACTLY!
I could have saved myself hours of writing dissertations. I mean comments 😂. If only I had been reminded of this saying earlier.
It could have also saved me years of frustration trying to learn real estate from people who couldn’t even afford toilet paper for the office even though they had side jobs.
The people I learn the most from don’t try to teach they just share their life experiences, mostly for FREE. 🤪 My favorite online writing coach Abbie Emmons shows how she is using her process to write books. It made me realize that my random notes are the beginning of the book writing process, organizing those notes are the second part. In fact it turns out that all my instincts as a writer are valid. Including my unique perspective on things that if nothing else is engaging.
I was taught by non-writers including teachers, that if my first draft for my first book attempt isn’t good that means that my book sucks, and I’m not going to be hired to write which means I can’t validate writing because I enjoy it. Plus I was taught i should care more about commas and capitalizing the word ‘I’, than my message. Even though that is one of the last things I do. And seems to be the last thing most writers address.
Ironically even though I can’t help but writing, I’ve been at it for 6 hours today even though I was suppose to be taking the weekend off. And I even wrote a creative non-fiction novella called, WHAT DOES LOVE HAVE TO DO WITH IT, I still have difficulty taking myself seriously as a writer.
I’m trying to write past the doubt by giving it a voice in a book I’m working on called “Lies ‘They’ve’ Told Me About Writing”. It’s an allegory for all the limitations we are taught to limit ourselves to. The excuses sound so STUPID to me when I write them down.
The second best part of Abbie Emmons online coaching is she has online writing livestreams that makes me feel like I have company while I’m writing. Especially since my biggest concern right now is finishing a book.
I’ve used CZcams to learn how to make jewelry and run my business. Now I’m using to learn how to write better and teach myself art.
I’m very happy with my progress. Until I think about ALL the things I want to learn. 😂
Or how I missed my ‘classes’ (meaning livestreams) this week, because I got caught up with painting exercises.
My 2 critiques are:
It was wrong for you to have your hand hit because you didn’t learn those writing rules. It’s wrong to hit kids and that’s one stupidest excuses I’ve heard to commit violence against kids. All they learn is writing sucks and violence works.
The second is I wish the interview was longer and more in-depth. The video ended just when it was getting good. But that’s ok because I can use CZcams to see if this writer has longer interviews on other channels.
🥳
This was amazing
People teaching creative writing, teach creative writing because they can't write creatively.....
Brandon sanderson 👀👀👀👀👀
Ego much?
Men like this stay in toilet stalls while you soil your pants, sox, shoes and the floor while waiting desperately, prayerfully and making contorted body twists. Eventually, you find a stairwell and smell up the entire wing. Police are called, you are carted off, strapped to a gurney and become a writer in hopes that laws will be passed to limit perpetual bathroom philosophers.
Whaaaaaaat?
I don’t get it.
How does the man being a writer effect you negatively? Especially when comes to going to the bathroom.
I must have missed something.
Please clarify.