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Is it possible...and I'm just conjecturing here, that this advice is for the 0.01% of humanity. Think about it from an extremely high level POV. If giving this advice to everyone in the entire world, and if 0.01% is able to follow through with it...this is how we get standouts like Beethoven, Einstein, Gates, Jobs. etc. Is this terrible advice then? Sure, it doesn't help plebs like us, but it sure does help the world move along...

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Beethoven, Einstein, Gates, Jobs. etc, all put in the grueling hard boring hours doing the things that weren't fun. They did what they were good and successful at, which when you become an expert at becomes very fulfilling.

There's a guy at our Home Depot who might be the best Home Depot salesman in the country. Just fun to be around, great with customer service, knows everything about the store, and always training new employees, and honestly seems to enjoy his job.

But I doubt he was thrilled when on his first day he was sweeping the floors after close.

Cal Newport addresses this very well in the first 10 mins of his talk at Google - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwOdU02SE0w

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