The value of hard work: Obsession gets things done | John Carmack and Lex Fridman

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GUEST BIO:
John Carmack is a legendary programmer, co-founder of id Software, and lead programmer of many revolutionary video games including Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, and the Commander Keen series. He is also the founder of Armadillo Aerospace, and for many years the CTO of Oculus VR.

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[ravelordnito]

Whoever is reading this your gonna do great things bud

[FearlessPP]

It’s genuinely shocking how much people prone to obsession achieve. They’re the type of people that got us to the moon. It’s so impressive that it comes off like a mental disorder lol

[thetravelingfoodshow]

Obsession gets things done, absolutely!💯💥 exteme motivation and hunger.

[vintageb]

Lucky are those who found their passion

Reading between the lines:
How do you achieve work life balance?
--> I work all the time, I guess that makes work my life.

[angelosenteio]

The people the burn out or fail to achieve work life balance are the ones that have the wrong obsession like making money. It’s the obsession to solve particular problems that drives him. I seriously doubt he would find the same level of obsession digging ditches. Find YOUR obsession and you won’t work a day in your life.

[Langevinhomestead]

Good things happen to those who work hard

[dreadtrain]

Yep, ask any serial killer, obsession is key.

[youtuber]

- Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

Michel de Montaigne

[juanandresnunez]

It makes sense that the best programmer of all time has never felt burnout

[michaelcamacho]

At first I heard him say bang out a few hundred lines of coc.

[denvervaillancourt]

Theo from joe Rogan podcast "People with autism are like the next step in becoming more like a computer, they are somewhere between human and computer because they cut out all emotion when completing difficult tasks or challenges"

[brann]

Don’t want to document at work no mo. Burnt out.

[X]

Anyone who brags about how hard they work is either trying to sell you something or is compensating for how untalented they really are. Just remember that.

[DownloadEvony]

His work is better than our pedestrian labor! Guy comes of a little Narcissistic!

[wn-nothing-be-happy]

If you ask a rat on a wheel that is well respected in the rat community, the rat on the wheel will tell you that he enjoys hard work on the wheel.

Ambitious people are mentally unbalanced. Today they are celebrated. At some point in the future, they will be treated for their disorder.