Voices of the Past
The value of an enterprise is not correlated with the amount of effort one puts in it, although this statement weighs heavily on the side of wasted effort, rather than that of sweat free success.
I could make a long list of activities that demand decades of training, are all-consuming, difficult, and not worth the box they came in.
Great endeavors are simple, and so obvious to everyone who learns about them, once people start to take notice they wonder how come they didn’t see them before.
Great endeavors are simple in the same way organic chemistry is simple, or three body motion, or game theory. How hard can it be to figure out all the ways you can mix four or five elements?
It’s not that they don’t demand endless hours and ungodly numbers of failures, that you don’t feel discouraged when they don’t work out, or that countless people won’t decide you’re not good enough, your expectations are ridiculous, or your sugar water has already been discovered.
It’s that you never think of your passion as demanding effort and sacrifice, and you just have to keep going, like a flower must keep blooming.
You slip out of time, never get weary of it, and hours, days can go by without notice, forgoing human needs.
Everything else is irrelevant.