Effort Is Its Own Reward If You

Remarkable Work Is Always Not On The List, Because If It Was, It Would Be Commonplace, Not Remarkable.

You Have To Find A Group That Really Desperately Cares About What It Is You Have To Say. Talk To Them. They Have Something I Call Otaku. It's A Great Japanese Word. It Describes The Desire Of Someone Who's Obsessed To, Say, Drive Across Tokyo To Try A New Ramen Noodle Place 'cause That's What They Do, They Get Obsessed With It.

Your Drudgery Is Another Person's Delight. It's Only A Job If You Treat It That Way. The Privilege To Do Our Work, To Be In Control Of The Promises We Make And The Things We Build, Is Something Worth Cherishing.

Who Gets To Decide What You Want?

Here's The Truth You Have To Wrestle With: The Reason That Art (writing, Engaging, Leading, All Of It) Is Valuable Is Precisely Why I Can't Tell You How To Do It. If There Were A Map, There'd Be No Art, Because Art Is The Act Of Navigating Without A Map. Don't You Hate That? I Love That There's No Map.