Make money doing the work you believe in
“We swim in a world where knowledge is power and competence is currency, especially among achievement-oriented, terminally online, hustler types.
The layman’s dream is to be sogood at something that you will make boatloads of money and get oceans of affection.
People will admire and want to be you, or curse you because they aren’t. The pulsing heart of this dream is winning.
And it’s the smart, hardworking, hungry folks who seem to win. Not the idiots.
I’ve interviewed hundreds of people and not once has anyone said, “You know what, I’m really an idiot.”
We’ve learned to launder weakness into strength.
I’m slow because I’m thoughtful.
I’m abrasive because I’m truth-seeking.
Idiocy doesn’t get the same treatment.
But let us look at it, let us really sit with this question:
What’s wrong with being an idiot?”