Zuckerberg wasn't particularly passionate about Facebook in the early days. Now he seems to be on a possibly life-long mission.
There's no substitute for discipline and hard work, not even passion (though it may make it less painful).
Ask HN: How many entrepreneurs out there are really passionate?
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#12Be passionate about creating value.
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#13I hear you brother. I do ask myself this sometimes.
I came to conclusion that I'm passionate about the "game"! Not money, not the product but figuring out the game of:
1. how my domain/system works
2. where is money
3. who are players, their motivations
4. how do customers/users function
trying out different hypothesis (gaming) for each of the above and seeing data and learning the GAME!
Once you KNOW THE GAME, you can use it anywhere else.
PS: Wall St 2 reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzPFCKDexok
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#14Zuckerberg wasn't particularly passionate about Facebook in the early days. Now he seems to be on a possibly life-long mission. There's no substitute for discipline and hard work, not even passion (though it may make it less painful).
True that he probably wasn't passionate at the beginning. But he must have developed it along the way. You don't continuously work 16-hour days unless you're passionate.
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#15raises hand
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#16The problem is not passion but vision. If you don't have a vision about where you want to take something then you will end up burning lots off energy but not really going anywhere. The rocket needs a destination to aim for even if it never get's there completely.
Exactly - without vision there is no reason to be passionate. I spend all my free time (and my work time) on CouchDB b/c I see a vision of a programming model which is much better than today's web, and I want to make it reality. In this sense, passion may mean that I'm unstoppable, because I'll keep doing it no matter what. But really, it's the power of the vision that drives me.
What is your vision?
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#17It's tough to know what you're really passionate about, though. One way to think about it, that I've found useful, is to say that you're passionate about something if you love coming in to work and doing things, and time goes by so fast that you have no idea how it's late at night already. If you can pull that off consistently, then you're somewhat on the right track.
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#18I hear you brother. I do ask myself this sometimes. I came to conclusion that I'm passionate about the "game"! Not money, not the product but figuring out the game of: 1. how my domain/system works 2. where is money 3. who are players, their motivations 4. how do customers/users function trying out different hypothesis (gaming) for each of the above and seeing data and learning the GAME! Once you KNOW THE GAME, you c…
this is awesome.
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#19Zuckerberg wasn't particularly passionate about Facebook in the early days. Now he seems to be on a possibly life-long mission. There's no substitute for discipline and hard work, not even passion (though it may make it less painful).
Just curious what led you to believe he wasn't passionate about Facebook? He was involved a couple other social networking type stuff like ConnectU and his HotOrNot clone. To me, it seems he was at least interested in exploring the domain space.
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#20There was that one married guy on HN a few weeks ago who knocked up his cofounder. That's passionate.