this dostoevsky quote is a massive whitepill if your intuitions are statistically mature btw if he perma grinded like a good boy instead of "idling around" and "making errors" the probability that he'd have died as a noname normie journalist rounds to 1 if you pay attention you'll notice that tail success is always generated by messy emergent functions... all the obvious playstyles that can be grinded out get immediately priced in parallel universe Elon Musk that doesn't crash out every other week and didn't spend half his life hours doomscrolling and instead stuck to a healthy grinder & wellness schedule is probably still clerking out in Toronto at scotiabank or something what I'm trying to say is that the recently emergent consensus that "you always know your optimal protocol" and that the only thing keeping you from success is your inability to stick to it is extremely incorrect... a more correct mentalmodel is as usual the lindy one -- which is that you should just do what you feel like doing and Destiny will reward you as it sees fit (Destiny rly hates optimizers (you can't optimize for complex functions)) it's like Steve Jobs going "mann imagine if I'd gone to Stanford instead of lollygagging and getting high in india... all that time wasted tsk tsk tsk" lil bro you'd be wageslaving at IBM!!!