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By this point, you probably understand why the ego would bristle at this idea. Within reach?! it complains. That means you’re saying I don’t have it now. Exactly right. You don’t. No one does. Our ego wants the ideas and the fact that we aspire to do something about them to be enough. Wants the hours we spend planning and attending conferences or chatting with impressed friends to count toward the tally that success seems to require. It wants to be paid well for its time and it wants to do the fun stuff—the stuff that gets attention, credit, or glory.
Ego Is the Enemy
Ryan Holiday
But this wasn't a Tulsa thing. It wasn't an Oklahoma thing. It was a white thing.
Seriously, lynching Black people was an American pastime. White people really believed that Black men were unable to control themselves around white women and lynching was the only solution.
On the 100th Anniversary...
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But there are other areas of business where the work is genuinely
interesting. Henry Ford got to spend much of his time working on
interesting technical problems, and for the last several decades
the trend in that direction has been accelerating. It's much easier
now to make a lot of money by working on something you're interested
in than it was 50 years ago.
And that, rather than how fast they
grow, may be the most important change that startups represent.
Though indeed, the fact that the work is genuinely interesting is
a big part of why it gets done so fast.
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Earnestness
paulgraham.com
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