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Steve Jobs - "The only way to do great work is to love what you do." · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Dot com Welcome to the Daily quote, the podcast designed to
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  kick start your day in a positive way.
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  I'm your host Andrew McGivern, and this podcast is brought to
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  is in the show notes. Let's jump into today's quote
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  from Steve Jobs, Co founder of Apple and one of the most
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  influential innovators of our time.
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  He once said the only way to do great work is to love what you
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  do. Interesting.
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  The only way. Not one way.
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  Not a helpful way, but the only way.
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  Jobs isn't being poetic here. He's stating what he discovered
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  building Apple. You cannot do great work without
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  loving what you do. Good work?
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  Yeah, sure. Competent work, absolutely.
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  You can force yourself to do acceptable work in something you
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  don't love. But great work, the kind that it
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  changes things, the kind that matters, that requires love.
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  Here's why. Great work demands more than
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  talent OR effort. It demands obsession,
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  persistence through failure, the willingness to try 1000
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  approaches until you find the right one.
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  You can't sustain that level of commitment for something you
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  don't love. You'll burn out.
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  You'll quit when it gets hard. You'll settle for good enough.
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  But when you love what you do, you don't quit.
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  The failures don't break you. They intrigue you.
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  The problems don't exhaust you. They energize you.
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  Jobs spend years perfecting products most people thought
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  were already good enough. Why?
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  Because he loved it. The work itself was the reward.
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  That's the trap most people fall into.
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  They think I'll do this job I don't love until I can afford to
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  do what I love. The jobs is saying you've got it
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  backwards. Find what you love first.
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  Do that because that's the only path to great work.
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  And great work is what creates the life you want, not
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  tolerating work you hate. So here's the question, do you
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  love what you do? Really.
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  Because if you don't, you'll never do great work.
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  And if you're not doing great work, what are you doing?
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  Find what you love, then do that.
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  It's the only way. That's it for today.
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  I'm Andrew McGivern, signing off for now, but I'll be back
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  tomorrow. Same pod time, same pod station
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  with another daily quote.