#314 Paul Graham (How To Do Great Work)

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

assum you're very ambitious. The first step is to decide what to work on. The work you choose needs to have three qualities. Number one, it has to be something you have a natural aptitude for. Number two, you have to have a deep interest in it.

And number three. It offers the scope to do great work. In practice, you don't have to worry much about the third criteria. All you need to do is find something you have an aptitude for. And a great interest in.

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