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LM: #361: How to get out of bed
There’s no getting around it: Long-term projects are difficult.
I have never met an author who didn’t say writing a book felt in some form like torture.
As I have approached the finish line of my own book, I’ve definitely spent hours of my mornings, staring at the ceiling, wondering how I could get up and do it again. Another day alone in a room, wrestling with my thoughts.
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When the reward for the day’s work is months or years off, I remind myself of this passage from Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations:
In the morning, when you rise unwillingly, let this thought be present: I am rising to the work of a human being…. Do you exist…to take your pleasure, and not at all for action and exertion? Do you not see the little plants, the little birds, the ants, the spiders, the bees working together to put in order their separate parts of the universe?
Even if you love what you do, there will be moments you don’t. Even if the work is gratifying, that gratification may dangling too far away to see.
Book: The Book of Elon (Amazon) is Eric Jorgenson’s compilation of the guiding philosophies of Mr. Musk.
Cool: Robin Greenfield is spending one year foraging 100% of his food.
Best,
David
P.S. The Preview Edition of Finish What Matters is available for a couple more days.
