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My favourite Nietzsche quote of all time https://t.co/gormamjKTp

So the point is to take the work seriously but you don’t take yourself too seriously. There’s a riff about this in Stephen Pressfield’s War of Art, where he talks about how amateurs are too precious with their work: “The professional has learned, however, that too much love can be a bad thing. Too much love can make him choke. The seeming

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At one point in his career, comedian Aziz Ansari felt trapped. He was doing it all—long press tours, performing night after night, juggling multiple projects, saying yes to everything, and chasing every opportunity to stay relevant. One night, feeling particularly stretched thin, Aziz ran into the musician Frank Ocean at a party. “Frank, how do you... See more