{"id":4018,"date":"2024-07-16T01:28:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T01:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymind.com\/?p=4018"},"modified":"2024-09-03T16:14:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T16:14:24","slug":"into-the-mind-of-harry-dry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymind.com\/into-the-mind-of-harry-dry","title":{"rendered":"Into the mind of Harry Dry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video interviewee-picture\"><video autoplay loop muted src=\"https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/frame1-3.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Harry Dry is the mind behind <a href=\"https:\/\/marketingexamples.com\/inspiration\">Copywriting Examples<\/a>, a brilliant resource and newsletter for ad writers, marketers and creatives. Dry takes his own medicine by writing succinct, compelling copy you actually want to read. He also happens to use mymind for collecting inspiration and references for his work. Here he kindly shares a glimpse inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-custom_5dzmfzg0c\">What\u2019s the best compliment you received recently?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNo one knew what you were going to say next.\u201d - Andy, an attendee at a talk I did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-custom_5dzmfzg0c\">What\u2019s the last thing you read?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bell-Jar-Modern-Classics\/dp\/0060837020\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\"The Bell Jar\" by Sylvia Plath<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Best metaphors and similes you will ever read \u2013 and you won\u2019t notice you read them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-custom_ax59j2p7m\">Click the + button in your browser, or long press and share the link to the mymind app on mobile, to save this to your mind as a book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-custom_5dzmfzg0c\">What do you want to read next?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m staring at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Farewell-Arms-Hemingway-Library\/dp\/1451658168\">\"A Farewell to Arms\"<\/a> as I write this, so maybe that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-semplice-img-oversize-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-15-at-3.58.28-PM-1024x520.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4020\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-15-at-3.58.28-PM-1024x520.png 1024w, https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-15-at-3.58.28-PM-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-15-at-3.58.28-PM-768x390.png 768w, https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-15-at-3.58.28-PM-1536x779.png 1536w, https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-15-at-3.58.28-PM-2048x1039.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-custom_ax59j2p7m\">Search \"Bell\" or \"Plath\" or \"books\" to find this later in your mind after saving it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-custom_5dzmfzg0c\">A quote that\u2019s meaningful to you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center is-style-custom_2ckfb3b91\">\"I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink. The great majority of artists are throwing themselves in with life preservers around their necks, and more often than not it is the life preserver, which sinks them. Nobody can drown in the ocean of reality who voluntarily gives herself up to the experience. Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge.\" \u2013 Henry Miller<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-custom_ax59j2p7m\">Highlight the text, quotation marks included, to save this to your mind as a quote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-custom_5dzmfzg0c\">Best gift you\u2019ve ever given?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An interview with my Grandpa (who has since died) for my Dad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-custom_5dzmfzg0c\">Where do you want to travel to next?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-custom_5dzmfzg0c\">What would you buy, if money weren\u2019t an issue?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A better mattress. Actually, no, if money is no object I\u2019d like a country house in some part of England I\u2019ve never heard of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-custom_5dzmfzg0c\">What hobby would you take up, if you had the time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2T6S9Kbh69Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cIf if if\u2026 doesn\u2019t exist.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-custom_5dzmfzg0c\">What\u2019s an image or piece of art you can\u2019t get out of your head?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"998\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/61izkxII4L._AC_UF10001000_QL80.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/61izkxII4L._AC_UF10001000_QL80.jpg 998w, https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/61izkxII4L._AC_UF10001000_QL80-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/61izkxII4L._AC_UF10001000_QL80-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/61izkxII4L._AC_UF10001000_QL80-768x770.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 998px) 100vw, 998px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Less the image, more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N-oERBst8L0\">the album <\/a>(and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colour_Green\">the story<\/a> behind it)!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-custom_ax59j2p7m\">Click the + button in your browser to save this to your mind as an a video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-custom_5dzmfzg0c\">A product of any kind you\u2019ve been appreciating lately?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Can I say <a href=\"https:\/\/marketingexamples.com\/inspiration\">Copywriting Examples?!<\/a> I know, I made it. But I use it every week and I\u2019m proud of it. One hundred new examples in mymind ready to add. Godspeed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"613\" src=\"https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image4-1024x613.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image4-1024x613.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image4-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image4-768x460.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image4.jpg 1234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-custom_ax59j2p7m\">Search \"copywriting\" or \"marketing\" or \"websites\" in your mind to find the website later after saving it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-custom_5dzmfzg0c\">The funniest thing you\u2019ve seen or heard lately?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-15-at-4.11.37-PM-1024x428.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4026\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-15-at-4.11.37-PM-1024x428.png 1024w, https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-15-at-4.11.37-PM-300x125.png 300w, https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-15-at-4.11.37-PM-768x321.png 768w, https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-15-at-4.11.37-PM.png 1186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-custom_ax59j2p7m\">Click the + button while viewing <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/uglygame\/status\/1807471539320668390\">the original post<\/a> to save it to your mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-custom_5dzmfzg0c\">If you could build an extension of your own mind, what would it look like? How would it work?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m sure technology will march on and in another hundred years you can just think and poof \u2013 that new song ends up in some digital folder. But I really can\u2019t be bothered with that. My mind is my mind. It doesn\u2019t need \u201can extension.\" Pen and paper is fine. And for internet stuff, mymind is pretty good. \u2698<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Dry is the mind behind Copywriting Examples, a brilliant resource and newsletter for ad writers, marketers and creatives. Dry takes his own medicine by writing succinct, compelling copy you actually want to read. He also happens to use mymind for collecting inspiration and references for his work. Here he kindly shares a glimpse inside. 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