Paul Graham：The Right Kind of Stubborn, Excerpt 5

When we love a problem that other people don't, it's often because we've unconsciously noticed that it's more important than they realize. Which leads to our fifth quality: there needs to be some overall goal. If you're like me you began, as a kid, merely with the desire to do something great. In theory that should be the most powerful motivator of all, since it includes everything that could possibly be done. But in practice it's not much use, precisely because it includes too much. It doesn't tell you what to do at this moment. So in practice your energy and imagination and resilience and good judgement have to be directed toward some fairly specific goal.

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