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How to Do Great Work
There's a kind of excited curiosity that's both the engine and the rudder of great work. It will not only drive you, but if you let it have its way, will also show you what to work on.
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
for me for a long time, that excited curiosity was orgasmic anxiety. I get this sensation that i’m going to cum in my pants.
Try to finish what you start, though, even if it turns out to be more work than you expected. Finishing things is not just an exercise in tidiness or self-discipline. In many projects a lot of the best work happens in what was meant to be the final stage.
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
The other thing you need is a willingness to break rules. Paradoxical as it sounds, if you want to fix your model of the world, it helps to be the sort of person who's comfortable breaking rules. From the point of view of the old model, which everyone including you initially shares, the new model usually breaks at least implicit rules.
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
Reading things that conflict with your biases and beliefs are likely helpful with this. Break the glass of your world to explore a new universe.