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by tempor-schule
1210 days ago
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I think you may have misrepresented my message. I understand that not everything is happiness and joy in a craft, you need to eat frogs and force yourself through boring but necessary tasks. That, believe me, I understood. The whole discipline beats motivation but the problem is that why. You can force yourself to developp that grit/self-discipline but it can only last so long (in my case a few years) if at the end you find no joy on what you are doing. Grit is like hope in the desert, but you cannot live on hope alone, you also need oasis for the water inbetween. >The idea that you have passionate about something in order to do it and to do it well.
Idk why but in my limited student experience, this is true. The classmates with the best code, most experience and projects were the ones who were actually passionate. There is basically a 2-5 point difference between the people who wanted to be in the classes and the people who dragged themselves every morning. I thank you for the time you took to write the message, and I see where you are coming from but it doesn't lead me to anywhere I didn't think before. |
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Self-discipline is something that lasts a lifetime not one or two years and if you can't persist past one or two years you've not developed it and not understood what it is. Again I believe that stems from youth and it's not a wrong to have that perspective when you're young I know I had that perspective at your age as well.
Grit and self-discipline help you understand you do the things you must do because they allow you to do those things you want to do. You don't have to find a joy every thing you do you don't even have to in your job thinking that your job or the method in which you earn money must provide you some sort of self-satisfaction is wrong-headed thinking and has not been true for all of time and it makes no sense that it should be true today. If you're lucky it's true most people aren't lucky. So you do what you must to earn the income the level you need to be able to do those things that you enjoy.
There is a primary fallacy that people always say when they think they need some self satisfaction from a job they say money doesn't buy happiness. And while that statement in and of itself is true the way it's used is missing the point. Money allows you the freedom to find happiness in ways that you can not when you're poor. Money buys freedom. So you can do a job that you hate that makes you a lot of money but that's not your life If your life is to climb mountains that job provides you the ability to do that because now you have the monetary resources to travel the world and climb mountain and take the time off that you need. That's great understanding that I will do a job that I hate the best of my ability because it provides me the means to do the things that give me satisfaction in life.