2006-04-19
"When I talk to people who've managed to make themselves work on big things, I find that all blow off errands, and all feel guilty about it."
"Big problems are terrifying. There's an almost physical pain in facing them."
http://paulgraham.com/procrastination.ht
"Big problems are terrifying. There's an almost physical pain in facing them."
http://paulgraham.com/procrastination.ht
"School has trained them to regard work as an unpleasant duty."
"If you take a boring job to give your family a high standard of living, as so many people do, you risk infecting your kids with the idea that work is boring."
"Prestige is like a powerful magnet that warps even your beliefs about what you enjoy. It causes you to work not on what you like, but what you'd like to like."
"It might be a good rule simply to avoid any prestigious task. If it didn't suck, they wouldn't have had to make it prestigious."
"'Always produce' will discover your life's work the way water, with the aid of gravity, finds the hole in your roof."
"In the US the only mechanism for forcing people to do unpleasant jobs is the draft, and that hasn't been invoked for over 30 years. All we can do is encourage people to do unpleasant work, with money and prestige."
"Constraints give your life shape. Remove them and most people have no idea what to do."
http://paulgraham.com/love.html
"If you take a boring job to give your family a high standard of living, as so many people do, you risk infecting your kids with the idea that work is boring."
"Prestige is like a powerful magnet that warps even your beliefs about what you enjoy. It causes you to work not on what you like, but what you'd like to like."
"It might be a good rule simply to avoid any prestigious task. If it didn't suck, they wouldn't have had to make it prestigious."
"'Always produce' will discover your life's work the way water, with the aid of gravity, finds the hole in your roof."
"In the US the only mechanism for forcing people to do unpleasant jobs is the draft, and that hasn't been invoked for over 30 years. All we can do is encourage people to do unpleasant work, with money and prestige."
"Constraints give your life shape. Remove them and most people have no idea what to do."
http://paulgraham.com/love.html