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What if your ambition outstrips your talent?
Fantasy keys won’t get you in. Almost every single thing you hope publication will do for you is a fantasy, a hologram—it’s the eagle on your credit card that only seems to soar. What’s real is that if you do your scales every day, if you slowly try harder and harder pieces, if you listen to great musicians play music you love, you’ll get better. A
... See moreAnne Lamott • Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
People who do great work are not necessarily happier than everyone else, but they're happier than they'd be if they didn't. In fact, if you're smart and ambitious, it's dangerous
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to be productive. People who are smart and ambitious but don't achieve much tend to become bitter.
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to be productive. People who are smart and ambitious but don't achieve much tend to become bitter.
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
Glass focuses on the gap that often exists between taste and ability—especially early on in a creative career. It’s easier to learn to recognize what’s good, he notes, than to master the skills required to meet this standard. I can see brilliance in the epic three-minute tracking shot that opens Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights, but I would hav
... See moreCal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
1. The lone path to being a good writer who writes good work is by writing your way there. You’ve got to fight your brain and conquer the excuses it throws up,. You’ve got to defeat your family obligations and your self doubt and your fatigue and the washing up. You can’t just take the eagles to a more convenient point on the map of that journey. T
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