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posicScott D. Clary writes in Facebook -- https://www.facebook.com/scottdclarypage/posts/pfbid0p8JTR6xN9W4F3NqWz6ZfPudyErM9i75bz38anrEhnxkzBne7bbj7LrrZTaZFXvy6l :
"Everybody works hard. Very few people work hard on the same thing for 10 years straight."
and posts a picture with the text saying:
"Hard work isn't the differentiator. Everybody works hard. The differentiator is working hard on the right thing long enough to look lucky."
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I have worked hard on the same thing for almost 20 years straight now, and I do not think that I look lucky. I am yet to encounter a single person who would be interested in following in my footsteps, or in traveling along a path in any way similar to mine, even if most of my difficulties and troubles are somehow cut away from the trajectory. No one seems to want to write 5000 pages of highly original, nontrivial math. research and have almost nothing to show for it in the end. The hoping is that I will look lucky 50 years from now (that is, long after I am dead).
"Everybody works hard. Very few people work hard on the same thing for 10 years straight."
and posts a picture with the text saying:
"Hard work isn't the differentiator. Everybody works hard. The differentiator is working hard on the right thing long enough to look lucky."
***
I have worked hard on the same thing for almost 20 years straight now, and I do not think that I look lucky. I am yet to encounter a single person who would be interested in following in my footsteps, or in traveling along a path in any way similar to mine, even if most of my difficulties and troubles are somehow cut away from the trajectory. No one seems to want to write 5000 pages of highly original, nontrivial math. research and have almost nothing to show for it in the end. The hoping is that I will look lucky 50 years from now (that is, long after I am dead).
