> Decide what you must do. Remove the roadblocks and optimize to achieve your goal. The problem is that humans don’t work like that. We aren’t the passionate b

> Decide what you must do. Remove the roadblocks and optimize to achieve your goal. The problem is that humans don’t work like that. We aren’t the passionate bunch the author think we are. People work for money and status , we are extremely result oriented not passion oriented. Even on here people enjoy technology , hacking etc. But if you gave us absolute certainty of economic and social success via some other drastically different path (e.g. a reality show such as Jersey Shore) , we would not hesitate one second and wear our tightest tank top and trunks , get tanned and play the part. I say “us” because I include myself in this scenario too, and I despise reality shows but you cant argue with millions of dollars and millions of followers. They are respectively the currency of financial and social success. it’s far better to be a millionaire reality star whose claim to fame is clubbing and partying on camera than a professor with an IQ of 185 whose fusion startup went under