"how to do great work if you collected lists of techniques for doing great work in a lot of different fields what would the intersection look like I decided to find out the following recipe assumes you..."

"succeeded back to the top of the essay he left off he says all you need to do is find something you have an aptitude for and a great interest in that sounds straightforward but it is often quite diffi..."

"know about multiple things some of the biggest discoveries come from noticing connections between different fields develop a habit of working on your own projects do not let work mean something that o..."

"excitingly ambitious as you grow older and your taste and projects evolves exciting and important will converge but always preserve exciting I love that maximum always preserve exciting there's a kind..."

"it's both the engine and the rudder of great work it will not only drive you but if you let it have its way it'll also show you what to work on back to Paul's essay what are you excessively curious ab..."

"then once you're at a frontier of knowledge and whatever field that you're in excessively interested in you're that's where you're going to start to learn and you're actually going to start to see you..."

"you know Paul Gres essays all of them are worth reading and rereading and you've seen this through my own actions go back to what 275 276 277 it's been like three weeks reading and rereading all of hi..."

"have to work hard to do great things but the empirical evidence is on the scale of the evidence for mortality so he's essentially it's like a shirt B that's what he's telling us that is why it's essen..."

"easy billions and billions of people in in the past and currently wouldn't have failed to do it and he hits at one of the most important part because you don't know what it's like until you start doin..."

"least admitted if they admitted that the system not only can't do much to help you figure out what to work on but is designed on this is so crazy this is the great thing about his writing because it's..."

"you're only going to figure this out you have to take actions do not be passive what should you do if you're young and ambitious but don't know what to work on what you should not do is drift along pa..."

"I'll tell you I think it's like 50 minute mark because I have the transcript in front of me I'm going to read from this like the series of events that had to happen for Mark Twain to finally find his ..."

"Life writes what he thinks is just a silly story that story goes viral that story then creates all all all these other fans and people that love Twain and want to help him he turns that into a trip to..."

"to do great work but one of the most subtle is that by casting a wide net they're more likely to find the right thing to work on in the first place okay so back up top when in doubt optimize for inter..."

"this rule so what is he saying there make what you are most excited about that's the main message of what he's trying to teach us he also has this uh there I think I talked about this before but in ot..."

"you're not astray and so when I read that the first time I said that may be my favorite paragraph so far and really cuz that line if you stick to what you find genuinely interesting you'll be proof ag..."

"whatever seems most interesting he's repeated that to us what 15 times maybe so far in different ways at each stage do whatever seems most interesting and gives you the best options for the future I c..."

"repeating this quote because it's one of my favorites my whole life has been spent trying to teach people that intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out in people resources they didn't k..."