Maybe offtopic, but the “trying too hard to try” part rings very true to me. Been on both sides of it.
The tricky thing about work, I’m realizing more and more, is that you should just work. That’s the whole secret. If instead you start thinking how difficult the work is, or how important to the world, or how you need some self-improvement before you can do the work effectively, these thoughts will slow you down and surprisingly often they’ll be also completely wrong. It always turns out later that your best work wasn’t the one that took the most effort, or felt the most important at the time; you were just having a nose-down busy period, doing a bunch of things, and only the passage of time made clear which of them mattered.
Maybe offtopic, but the “trying too hard to try” part rings very true to me. Been on both sides of it.
The tricky thing about work, I’m realizing more and more, is that you should just work. That’s the whole secret. If instead you start thinking how difficult the work is, or how important to the world, or how you need some self-improvement before you can do the work effectively, these thoughts will slow you down and surprisingly often they’ll be also completely wrong. It always turns out later that your best work wasn’t the one that took the most effort, or felt the most important at the time; you were just having a nose-down busy period, doing a bunch of things, and only the passage of time made clear which of them mattered.