Preface: I wrote a post a while back titled: Lucky or Smart? Along those same lines, I pose another question: Luck or Passion? (hint: luck wins every time.) A very common piece of advice that keeps coming up, over and over again, is “follow your passion”1. While this advice is always well intentioned, and perhaps…
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When I was young, I was taught one universal truth: do well in school and you’ll be successful. While it’s a nice simplistic view of the world, it’s not entirely accurate. Let’s put that aside the fact that there are no universal truths for a second, and focus on the sentiment of the message: studying…
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“I started to force myself to think again about what I wanted in poker, in business, in life, it was easy to get caught up and engrossed in what I was currently doing, and that made it easy to forget that I always had to the option to change tables. Psychologically, it’s hard because of…
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Before I came to graduate school, I had this grand picture. Here was an institute dedicated to the advancement of science and knowledge. Researchers fervently working on the fringe of human knowledge in their particular subject matter. Every topic somehow contributing to this grand scheme called human progress. It’s funny how we like to idealize…
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There’s a reason why Rocky is such a great movie. A rags to riches story where a nobody boxer from Philadelphia gets his chance at the big leagues. Every moment in the movie is an instant classic, from Rocky running up the steps to his final cry of love for Adrian. But in my mind,…