Minsuk Kang 강민석
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Minsuk Kang 강민석
Most people don’t want to be convinced that your work is wonderful, they just want to know that you care.
James Clear • Haters and Critics: How to Deal with People Judging You and Your Work
A skeptical New York Times review of the World’s Fair television demonstration wrote that “[t]he problem with television is that people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn’t time for it.” It was soon proven incorrect – though there were only a few hundred television sets in use in the United States by
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what you're aiming for, because if you don't try to be the best, you won't even be good. This observation has been made by so many people in so many different fields that it might be worth thinking about why it's true. It could be because ambition is a phenomenon where almost all the error is in one direction — where almost all the... See more
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what you're aiming for, because if you don't try to be the best, you won't even be good. This observation has been made by so many people in so many different fields that it might be worth thinking about why it's true. It could be because ambition is a phenomenon where almost all the error is in one direction — where almost all the... See more
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
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Books that are “representative,” that are more easily “absorbed,” undermine the main reason to read them: to push readers beyond themselves in uncomfortable and productive ways.
Ruby LaRocca • A Constitution for Teenage Happiness
It's an intimidating prospect to enter a field where a few big winners outperform everyone else. Some people do this deliberately, but you don't need to. If you have sufficient natural ability and you follow your curiosity sufficiently far, you'll end up in one. Your curiosity won't let you be interested in boring questions, and interesting... See more
The Technium: 1,000 True Fans
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If you can understand this my dear friends, the understanding will melt the addiction. And you will be free and you will understand the loveliness of what prayer is. Then you will discover what reality is, what god is, because you will have dropped one of our biggest illusions: the illusion that we need to be appreciated, to be popular, to succeed,
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