Nagle Notes: Effort
Hello friends,
Paul Graham has a great article about why nerds are unpopular. It's quite a long read but one part stuck out to me.
They don't realize that it takes work to be popular. In general, people outside some very demanding field don't realize the extent to which success depends on constant (though often unconscious) effort. For example, most people seem to consider the ability to draw as some kind of innate quality, like being tall. In fact, most people who "can draw" like drawing, and have spent many hours doing it; that's why they're good at it. Likewise, popular isn't just something you are or you aren't, but something you make yourself.
Anything you want to be good at requires effort. Talent and luck always have an effect but simply working towards something is the best way to hone your skill and become a master. Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers discuss how it is necessary to do the monotonous work of practice to become competent at something.
Putting the effort in now pays dividends later.
Onwards,
Nagle
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