I agree that pain shouldn’t measure how hard you are trying.
However, I feel like grit, while not always particularly enjoyable, is what leads to true greatness. Persevering with a challenge, that is.
Of course, there’s a difference between that and meaningless suffering. I was always at odds with people working very hard on something that can be easily automated / sped up.
You don’t think truly great things have ever been done by people who genuinely enjoyed what they were doing, throughout?
I’d agree that with most bigger projects, it becomes impossible to succeed unless you are willing to put in the work to finish even on parts that are really not fun to finish. But for short projects that do not require a lot of editing or surrounding work, I feel they can often be done from a place of pure flow—which is, by definition, a state both highly productive, as well as pleasant and effortless.
I agree that pain shouldn’t measure how hard you are trying.
However, I feel like grit, while not always particularly enjoyable, is what leads to true greatness. Persevering with a challenge, that is.
Of course, there’s a difference between that and meaningless suffering. I was always at odds with people working very hard on something that can be easily automated / sped up.
You don’t think truly great things have ever been done by people who genuinely enjoyed what they were doing, throughout?
I’d agree that with most bigger projects, it becomes impossible to succeed unless you are willing to put in the work to finish even on parts that are really not fun to finish. But for short projects that do not require a lot of editing or surrounding work, I feel they can often be done from a place of pure flow—which is, by definition, a state both highly productive, as well as pleasant and effortless.