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by SnowHill9902 1285 days ago
Motivation is for rookies. Discipline and competitiveness is for men.
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i hear this over and over, but It just feels like semantics... question just shifts from how to be motivated to how to be disciplined?
You’re getting downvoted, and I can see why, professionals would’ve been a better noun.

That said, I don’t think you’re wrong:

> Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightening to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

- Chuck Close