How to Do Great Work

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Paul Graham (@paulg) on how to do great work. I used to be stuck at the third point a lot and reading this helped me immensely. https://t.co/qaZt7VsVVY

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Choose work you have a natural aptitude for and a deep interest in. Develop a habit of working on your own projects; it doesn't matter what they are so long as you find them excitingly ambitious. Work as hard as you can without burning out, and this will eventually bring you to one of the frontiers of knowledge. These look smooth from a distance, b... See more

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Four steps: choose a field, learn enough to get to the frontier, notice gaps, explore promising ones. This is how practically everyone who's done great work has done it, from painters to physicists.