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Re:Ask HN: How do you motivate yourself to keep working on a... by kevinyun on Monday January 14, 2019 @03:06PM (#18905996)
Not to sound depressing, but as I read this comment's first paragraph, a negative perspective was my initial thought, and not the positive aspect.

It's worth noting that a "YOLO" attitude can be used as a double-edged sword for motivation (e.g, "One day I will be dead, so there's no point in vying for success")

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Re:Ask HN: How do you motivate yourself to keep working on a... by sephoric on Monday January 14, 2019 @03:14PM (#18906053)
I guess that depends on what you mean by success. If nobody ever remembers my successes, if I never make "disrupt" any industry, if I never get to retire, if my works are never immortalized, even if all my software becomes obsolete one day when the SDKs that I'm using no longer exist (which has already happened a few times), as long as I can pay for my family's food by solving problems for other people, I will be satisfied.
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