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A comment on Ask HN: How to do that you need to do but not motivated at all?.

Re:Ask HN: How to do that you need to do but not motivated a... by SnowHill9902 on Thursday December 15, 2022 @09:57AM (#34000468)
Motivation is for rookies. Discipline and competitiveness is for men.
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Re:Ask HN: How to do that you need to do but not motivated a... by xyzwave on Thursday December 15, 2022 @11:38AM (#34002062)
You’re getting downvoted, and I can see why, professionals would’ve been a better noun.

That said, I don’t think you’re wrong:

> Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightening to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

- Chuck Close

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Re:Ask HN: How to do that you need to do but not motivated a... by mumer101 on Thursday December 15, 2022 @12:53PM (#34003141)
i hear this over and over, but It just feels like semantics... question just shifts from how to be motivated to how to be disciplined?
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