Doing What You Love
Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
Few of us are so fortunate as to be able to do what we love for a living, but to do this is a challenge in itself. Most of us need the security of our day jobs and simply think we just could never make a living doing what we like to do best. Fortunately for us here at the studio, we do a combinations of what we love best, designing and providing solutions for businesses who need them. And we get to do it every day!
Here is an excellent essay by Paul Graham explaining how to do what you love best. Here is a small excerpt.
“To do something well you have to like it. That idea is not exactly novel. We’ve got it down to four words: “Do what you love.” But it’s not enough just to tell people that. Doing what you love is complicated.
The very idea is foreign to what most of us learn as kids. When I was a kid, it seemed as if work and fun were opposites by definition. Life had two states: some of the time adults were making you do things, and that was called work; the rest of the time you could do what you wanted, and that was called playing. Occasionally the things adults made you do were fun, just as, occasionally, playing wasn’t– for example, if you fell and hurt yourself. But except for these few anomalous cases, work was pretty much defined as not-fun.”