yego.me
💡 Stop wasting time. Read Youtube instead of watch. Download Chrome Extension

What feels like play to you, but looks like work to others?


less than 1m read
·Nov 3, 2024

I think for everybody there is something that they do that other people think is work but is effortless for them. Their friends will basically say to them, "Oh, I can't believe you can just do that without hating it." Everyone's got something like that, and whatever that thing is, you can build a career out of that.

That's the beauty of being such a large planet, because if you're that good at it, you probably love it. And you're going to be in; you're going to be better than anybody else because you'll be doing it for fun when they're doing it for work. Eventually, they'll tire out when the results aren't there, and they'll give up.

A lot of the results now, the world is a very efficient place, right? There are lots of podcasters, there's lots of runners, there's lots of TV shows, there are lots of writers. The world is very efficient, so the people who succeed are the ones who are irrationally passionate about something. They're not doing it for the money, but you just need to be patient.

This is the problem: it takes 10 years to build a career in anything. It takes 10 years minimum to raise a child. It takes 10 years minimum to build a business. It takes 10 years to build a career.

More Articles

View All
Lecture 19 - Sales and Marketing; How to Talk to Investors (Tyler Bosmeny; YC Partners)
Keep talking. Okay, great. Um, so, okay, great. Thanks for having me. So, my name is Tyler. I’m the CEO of Clever, and what I want to talk today is about sales, and I have a little bit of insight into this. Um, I graduated college. I actually studied mat…
The Simple Secret of Runway Digits
While waiting on a plane during taxi ‘till takeoff, looking out the window, you may have noticed the giant number numbering the runway, say eight, which implies seven others exist, at least, but this is a flight out of L.O.L. Airport, in Nevada’s desert o…
Adding 1 vs. adding 10 | Addition and subtraction | 1st grade | Khan Academy
So pause this video and real quick figure out what 27 plus 1 is, and then if possible, figure out what 27 plus 10 is. All right, so a lot of, let’s think about it together. You might have been able to do this one pretty easily. You might have said, okay,…
Earthquakes 101 | National Geographic
The ground starts to quiver; glasses rattle. Soon, walls shift, and everything begins to collapse—telltale signs of what could be a devastating earthquake. We’ve seen the destruction they unleash. Some of us may have even lived through one, and we know th…
This Indigenous Practice Fights Fire with Fire | Podcast | Overheard at National Geographic
What you’re hearing is the sound of grass burning in a dense forest in northern California. It’s full of coniferous trees, brush, and shrubs, and tons of branches, and tons of dried out foliage, because the area is so dried up thanks to the warming climat…
The Physics of Slingshots 2 | Smarter Every Day 57
Hey, it’s me Destin. Welcome back to Smarter Every Day. So, if you want to become smart in any particular field, you have to go talk to the experts. This is why I went to Germany to a guy named Jörg Sprave. [thunder] Now today we’re gonna learn about the …