alt Hacker NewsDoes that mean you sat down every work day for 32 years and wrote the same thing on the top of your notepad? I appreciate the consistency but it looks like you could've gotten it inscribed on a plaque at that point :)
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deaux • today at 10:05 AM
I know this is bad form (a convoluted way of replying "this") but I'd love to hear the answer to this one!
Ha! No I didn’t write that goal down every day. Partly because it was a side project, and partly because it was engraved - on my brain!
I did write the goal down a lot, on working notes, and put it on my fridge, my whiteboard, my pin board, along with next steps and lists of tasks for each.
It was too hard to work on one next step, because there was so much I didn’t know, and it was impossible to know which step was going to cave in first.
That’s when I learned to clear my desk, whenever work hit a wall, and rewrite the goals and steps. To completely reset my mind so I could move forward in a clear alternate direction without pause.
Later I noticed doing that reset every morning helped even more.
I thought a lot about Don Quixote as time went by. I dreamt an impossible dream. Under a star. And then, one day, I got in!