Excerpt from "How to do What You Love"

Excerpt from "How to do What You Love" -They have to work on dull stuff now is so they can work on more interesting stuff later. -Unproductive pleasures pall eventually. As a lower bound, you have to like your work more than any unproductive pleasure. -What you should not do, I think, is worry about the opinion of anyone beyond your friends. You shouldn't worry about prestige. Prestige is the opinion of the rest of the world. -If you do anything well enough, you'll make it prestigious. So just do what you like, and let prestige take care of itself. -One is to try to do a good job at whatever you're doing, even if you don't like it. Then at least you'll know you're not using dissatisfaction as an excuse for being lazy. Perhaps more importantly, you'll get into the habit of doing things well. Another test you can use is: always produce.