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by ak39 4880 days ago
No need for the barf response. It's actually the truest and best advice one can get.

Genius does what genius knows will make him/her happy[1].

That's it. Simple as that.

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[1] Of course we know and appreciate the difficulty of defining that. Or that we've appreciated that happiness is probably only "achievable" obliquely. Or that happiness isn't what we are after ... after all, and that it's meaningfulness that we seek. Or that even after searching for meaning we come to the absurd conclusion that our existence is devoid of any meaning! Doesn't matter really, just be happy. FFS.