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The Anatomy of Determination

In some very energetic people's lives you see something like wing flutter, where they alternate between doing great work and doing absolutely nothing. Externally this would look a lot like bipolar disorder.

Paul Graham may be a genius. Lisa Haneberg is the first person who told me to 'flap my wings' at a SIPA meeting, my first time visiting Silicon Valley, in 2006.

How right she was about being aflutter...

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Nov 05, 2009
Leonard Kish said...
Big fan of Paul Graham. Thanks for sharing. Keep fluttering!
Nov 05, 2009
 said...
But also don't forget the last paragraph: "Note too that determination and talent are not the whole story. There's a third factor in achievement: how much you like the work. If you really love working on something, you don't need determination to drive you; it's what you'd do anyway."

Keep it up! :-)

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