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Re:How To Be Fucking Awesome by aneesh on Monday November 10, 2008 @09:06PM (#360108)
Loving what you do is necessary, but not sufficient.

What you do should be at the intersection of what you love and what you're good at.

Re:How To Be Fucking Awesome by mdakin on Tuesday November 11, 2008 @03:51PM (#360941)
How do you know you're good at something a priori without spending the 10,000 hours to find out empirically?
Re:How To Be Fucking Awesome by aneesh on Wednesday November 12, 2008 @01:54AM (#361538)
You do what statisticians do ... take a small sample and estimate.

Spend 20 hours each doing 10 different things, and then pick 2-3 of them to spend 200 hours doing. Then pick the one. While it may take 10,000 hours to be truly awesome, you can probably get a sense of being "good" at something in a much smaller amount of time.