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“Complexity, autonomy, and a relationship between effort and reward in doing creative work, and that’s worth more to most of us than money.”
“When Louis Borgenicht came home after first seeing that child’s apron, he danced a jig. He He hadn’t sold anything yet. He was still penniless and desperate, and he knew that to make something of his idea was going to require years of backbreaking labor. But he was estatic, because the prospect of those endless years of hard labor did not seem like a burden to him. Bill Gates had that same feeling when he fisrt sat down at the keyboard at Lakeside. And the Beatles didn’t recoil in horror when they were told they had eight hours a night, seven days a week. They jumped at the chance. Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig.” -Outliers, Gladwell.
Sometimes it’s better to take the long route. Effort and reward. It’s easy to just keep or spend the bill but it takes moxie to go up to a stranger and announce your proposition.
