Paul Graham on how to do great work:
“Great work happens by focusing consistently on something you're genuinely interested in.” https://t.co/DPJYyeNqKC
Paul Graham on how to do great work: “Great work happens by focusing consistently on something you're genuinely interested in.” https://t.co/DPJYyeNqKC
Believe it or not, I tried to make this essay as short as I could. But its length at least means it acts as a filter. If you made it this far, you must be interested in doing great work. And if so you're already further along than you might realize, because the set of people willing to want to is small.
How to Do Great Work
Another test you can use is: always produce. For example, if you have a day job you don't take seriously because you plan to be a novelist, are you producing? Are you writing pages of fiction, however bad? As long as you're producing, you'll know you're not merely using the hazy vision of the grand novel you plan to write one day as an opiate. The ... See more