Szymon Kaliski

Enjoy the Journey

• however naively obvious it sounds, it's so much easier to make progress when the steps along the way are enjoyable to you - and when you focus on these steps, instead of the destination
  • Be Honest with Yourself, introspect, and find the things that you actually enjoy doing - instead of finding things that you "should" enjoy, or things that you "wished" you enjoy
• Craft Comes from Repetition, and repetition is "free" when you like what you do; it's also easier to Play Your Own Games when you're not thinking about the outcomes, just about the process
• and, of course, Following Genuine Interests Forms Positive Feedback Loops

Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do.

— Richard Feynman

Creative work requires openness, interplay, slack.

— Fixation on outcome in creative work is often self-defeating ↗ - Andy Matuschak

• Leave Room for Errors! - enjoying the journey means relaxed pace, looking out the window, day-dreaming

They enjoy hard practices, (...) Often, they don't see what they do as sacrificial at all. They like it.

— The Mundanity of Excellence

I never trust anyone who's more excited about success than about doing the thing they want to be successful at.

— Randall Munroe