Wow, bad timing to read this article.

I wanted to write about mixing ideas from books to be able to create your own path but now I’ll just feel like a copy cat.

Great article, it can become ridiculously annoying when you achieve something and people ask you for every detail of how you did it. Like trying to create a shadow of what you’ve achieved. I like helping people but life is all about timing and adaptation. If success could be easily copied then we’d have hundreds if not thousands of Googles, Facebooks, whatever, you name it. And people tried, tried to copy those ideas like it was some kind of revelation but never achieved that level of success.

But I have to strongly disagree with something you’ve written. Working hard is not a habit to emulate. It NEVER works. You can’t just work hard, never, ever, ever, that’s not how it works. That’s the impression we get.

Working hard is only a consequence of something much deeper. When you believe in something, in your core, it becomes like an obsession. That’s what drives people to work hard. Maybe you want to achieve corporate success, maybe you want to create a new technology, maybe you want to achieve academic excellence. There’s ALWAYS a reason to be able to work hard.

Working hard is not a trait. Like some people have it, some people don’t. It’s a trait of someone who was able to find something… something so powerful that creates a drives, that drive is what gets you working hard.