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Wallpaper - “Don’t Ignore Your Dreams…”

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Re: Wallpaper - “Don’t Ignore Your Dreams…”

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I always wonder, will what works for pg and other famous people work for me, a relative zero entity?

It's great that they have these ideals now that they are esteemed critical thinkers, businessmen, and artists. "Would they have been more or less successful if they had had these ideals back then?" is the question that I would like answered.

Re: Wallpaper - “Don’t Ignore Your Dreams…”

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This appears to be just some words from PG's article written in nice handwriting in front of a picture of a mountain. Am I missing something?

That's what I expected given the title of the submission.

Am I missing the reason for your comment?

Re: Wallpaper - “Don’t Ignore Your Dreams…”

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This appears to be just some words from PG's article written in nice handwriting in front of a picture of a mountain. Am I missing something?

Nope, but that doesn't make the words, or the obvious impact they had on the artist, any less important.

Re: Wallpaper - “Don’t Ignore Your Dreams…”

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This appears to be just some words from PG's article written in nice handwriting in front of a picture of a mountain. Am I missing something?

I suppose if you think about things in general, all design is just words, shapes, and pictures organized in an aesthetically pleasing and functionally efficient way. This is a wallpaper, so there's less of the latter. :P

Re: Wallpaper - “Don’t Ignore Your Dreams…”

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I always wonder, will what works for pg and other famous people work for me, a relative zero entity? It's great that they have these ideals now that they are esteemed critical thinkers, businessmen, and artists. "Would they have been more or less successful if they had had these ideals back then?" is the question that I would like answered.

I read another comment from comet that had a quote on a post that just left the front page about Feynman burning out that I think might answer your question. You can do it all, be successful, happy, driven, and have what others might think are unobtainable ideals all at the same time.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3877084 This reminds me of a Zen Buddhist text that goes like this - “The Master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence in everything he does, leaving others to determine whether he is at work or at play. To him, he is always doing both.”

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