How To Be Fucking Awesome
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How To Be Fucking Awesome
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#2Need to season this with a little http://mattmaroon.com/?p=583
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#3Another equally important thing is choosing your battles: you have to not only work hard, but work hard at the right things.
I could practice basketball for 10,000 hours, but there's no way I could do it professionally. You have to figure out what your natural abilities are, and work hard in those areas.
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#4Short and sweet read says... if you want to be awesome. Put it time. I believe it.
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#5You do realize that spending one hour daily to get good at something would still require almost 30 years, right? I love the post though. Thanks.
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#6Short and sweet read says... if you want to be awesome. Put it time. I believe it.
I agree.
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#7You do realize that spending one hour daily to get good at something would still require almost 30 years, right? I love the post though. Thanks.
I think the point is that you spend much more than one hour a day at it.
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#8Another equally important thing is choosing your battles: you have to not only work hard, but work hard at the right things . I could practice basketball for 10,000 hours, but there's no way I could do it professionally. You have to figure out what your natural abilities are, and work hard in those areas.
And be sure to avoid confusion 'natural abilities' with talents. I agree with aneesh that you shouldn't focus on something that you are inferior at genetically - obviously a seven foot tall guy will be better at basketball and a normal sized person if both play professionally - but make sure you don't give up by saying, "I can't seem to do very well at this one thing. Eh, I suppose it's just not a natural ability."
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#9You do realize that spending one hour daily to get good at something would still require almost 30 years, right? I love the post though. Thanks.
I think the point is that you spend much more than one hour a day at it.
Agreed. I felt like doing some math. :) Anyway, one hour a day is what many of us have to pursue other personal goals different from work, family, etc.
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#10If you get 3 solid hours of work (work you could, if you were being paid hourly, bill for) on something you're doing in a day, you'd accumulate your 10,000 hours in about 9 years, assuming you get 3 hours in every single day of the year. That's unrealistic, so bump it up to 10 years.
This has been brought up before: http://norvig.com/21-days.html