To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
This is great. Is it a quote from somewhere?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ask HN: Do you feel like you're missing out?
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#42There's no one becoming instantly rich & famous in anything. Behind every overnight success is years of grinding it out getting better at whatever it is that you do. I don't care if you are talking about startups or rap music. It only ever looks like an overnight success because the 5 or 8 years of grinding it out before aren't exciting to talk about. Even people that make it rich quickly on 1 particular startup probably had a bunch of things going before they ever did that 1 startup.
What does that mean for you?
Are you growing every day? You can work hard without growing. Growing is learning, pushing yourself, meeting new people, exposing yourself to new things. If you are doing that on a continuous basis, you will find your way into the "party".
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#43The things you listed are mostly crap and don't matter.
Find the niche you're really interested in, and intensely follow and get involved with that. It's much more fulfilling than being kept up-to-date with the latest "someone made this controversial remark on twitter" scandal or the IPO of some startup you've never heard of until now.
There's just too much stuff in the world, and you can't know and follow everything in detail. I read a pretty wide variety of news, out of interest, but I have my core areas in which I work which are the real things I'm passionate about.
(also: "Web 2.0" isn't a thing)
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#45“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum LP
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#46A little bit. But then I notice that almost everyone announcing anything interesting has been working hard at that project for years.
So I put my head down and get back to work, so that I too may make an interesting announcement in the not-too-distant future.
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#47Dude, do you realize there are areas on earth where inhouse toilet and running potable water are luxuries? Besides,studies have shown that a) Financial income above a specific fairly low and professionally attainable threshold does not bring any more happiness (70k a year or so) b) most happiness peoples experience per achievements are due to achieved intrinsic goals (art, science, learning to play the piano, whateve…
I dont think that 70k threshold is actually necessarily true. At least according to:https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&ei=bMxgVaux...
Re: Ask HN: Do you feel like you're missing out?
#48Dude, do you realize there are areas on earth where inhouse toilet and running potable water are luxuries? Besides,studies have shown that a) Financial income above a specific fairly low and professionally attainable threshold does not bring any more happiness (70k a year or so) b) most happiness peoples experience per achievements are due to achieved intrinsic goals (art, science, learning to play the piano, whateve…
I dont think that 70k threshold is actually necessarily true. At least according to: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&ei=bMxgVaux...
http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/danielgilbert/files/if-mone...
here's the url directly, google search seems to rewrite links in results.
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#49Dude, do you realize there are areas on earth where inhouse toilet and running potable water are luxuries? Besides,studies have shown that a) Financial income above a specific fairly low and professionally attainable threshold does not bring any more happiness (70k a year or so) b) most happiness peoples experience per achievements are due to achieved intrinsic goals (art, science, learning to play the piano, whateve…
I dont think that 70k threshold is actually necessarily true. At least according to: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&ei=bMxgVaux...
Ok, I oversimplified and am not a specialist anyway :) basically, as I as a layman to current psychological research understand it, 70k gets you to a point where most common financial stressors of an everyday western life can be dealt with withou too much difficulty. Above that should bring you to a place where you have more financial freedom to explore your intrinsic motivations and desires. One can travel and hire personal guides and trainers, etc. Sure, if one absolutely needs to do helicopter bungee jumping above the amazon rainforest to fullfill ones dearest intrinsic drives then yeah, 70k might not cut it :). Otoh if marathon running suffices then that has near zero cost.
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#50There is one thing you have to remember: this is not a competition.
You don't have to play the game. Do things at your pace. A lot of things you read about the successes is not entirely true. It is very common for the media to exaggerate the sexy parts. Every start up story is a revolutionary until you see them throw in the towel a few month later.
Do things at your own pace, as long as you do something.