How to write a hook that works
- 1Pick a pattern belowChoose a template whose shape fits what you want to say.
- 2Fill in your specificsReplace the brackets with a real number, name, or claim. Specifics beat vague every time.
- 3Cut the warm upDelete any lead in and start where the tension begins, so the point is visible before the feed clips it.
Copy ready hook templates
- I spent [time] doing [thing] so you do not have to. Here is what actually worked.
- Most people get [topic] wrong. Here is the version nobody tells you.
- [Number] lessons from [experience], and the last one cost me the most.
- Everyone says [common advice]. After [experience], I think the opposite.
- The fastest way to [outcome] is not [obvious thing]. It is this.
- I almost quit [thing]. Then one change fixed it.
- You do not have a [problem] problem. You have a [real problem] problem.
- Nobody talks about the boring part of [topic], so I will.
- Here is how [result] actually happened, step by step.
- If I started [thing] again today, I would skip these [number] mistakes.
- [Well known belief] is holding you back. Here is what to do instead.
- It took me [time] to learn what I could have read in one post. So here it is.