I’m a project person. I love projects — I love coming up with ideas, I love watching them gestate and emerge and grow up, and I love the thrill that comes from knowing I’ll always have interesting things to work on. I think that’s key: life is too short not to spend it working on stuff I care deeply about. After all, it’s when I’ve got that kind of passion and excitement about a project — when I want to drop everything else and focus solely on the project that’s giving me goosebumps — that I produce my best work. Why not do that all the time?
My general rule of thumb in life thus far has been to follow my interests, and I think it’s safe to say that almost all of my skills have come from doing just that. (The more you do this, I find, the more your interests expand. Pretty soon you’re interested in everything. It’s a little hectic but never boring.) Besides, interested people are interesting. Passion is contagious.
Moral of the story? Don’t waste time on stuff you’re not interested in, unless you have an inescapable obligation to do it or it’s a stepping stone that’ll get you to where your true interests lie.
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I like your use of the word gestate. Also, I love the new layout of the site.
It’s a good word. :) Thanks!