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The most productive periods of your life are those where you act crazy. Why?
by jbyers 16y ago
The most productive periods of your life are those where you act crazy.
Why?
- theli0nheart 16y agoI think I explained it pretty well in the post. The more you challenge yourself to break out of the mold, you'll find that instead of things happening, you make them happen. PG has a similar take with his definition of an animal, although it's not 100% the same thing: > What it means specifically depends on the job: a salesperson who just won't take no for an answer; a hacker who will stay up till 4:00 AM rather than go to bed leaving code with a bug in it; a PR person who will cold-call New York Times reporters on their cell phones; a graphic designer who feels physical pain when something is two millimeters out of place.
- gnok 16y agoI suspect he defines 'crazy' as being unconventional and different and 'productive' as 'great success'. With those definition, I think he means to say that your chance of success significantly improves if you attempt something unconventional and different. His strategy is similar to the many epsilon greedy strategies in CS. Reasonable don't you think?