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Naval Ravikant - "Find what feels like play to you, but looks like work to others." · 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 Mcgibbon, and this episode is brought to
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  you by the Great News Podcast because good news should be
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  heard. Today's quote comes from Novell
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  Rabacant, entrepreneur, philosopher and Co founder of
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  Angel List. He's one of Silicon Valley's
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  most influential thinkers on wealth, happiness and how to
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  build a life that actually works.
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  He once said find what feels like play to you but looks like
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  work to others. This question sounds simple.
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  It is anything but. Most career advice tells you to
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  follow your passion, find your purpose, and do what you love.
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  Naval's version is more precise than that, and more useful.
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  He's not just asking what you enjoy, he's asking what you
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  enjoy so much that you'd be willing to do it for hours and
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  wouldn't notice time passing while someone watching from the
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  outside would think you were grinding away.
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  That gap between how it feels to you and what it looks like to
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  everyone else is where your greatest competitive advantage
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  lives. Novell explains that when work
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  feels like play, you will out compete everyone doing the same
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  thing as actual work because you'll do it effortlessly for a
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  longer without burning out. If others want to compete with
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  you, they're going to be working while you're playing and they're
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  going to lose. Think about what that means in
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  any field. The people who rise to the top
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  aren't always the most talented at the start.
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  They're often simply the ones who couldn't stop doing it, who
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  found it so naturally engaging that the hours others found
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  exhausting felt to them like play.
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  Naval ties this directly to what he calls specific knowledge,
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  skills that come only from genuine interest, not from
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  training programs or schools. When someone truly enjoys what
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  they're doing, they spend more time on it without forcing
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  themselves. Learning happens faster and
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  effort feels lighter. That's not just a career
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  philosophy, it's a competitive strategy.
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  Find the overlap between what lights you up and what the world
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  values, and no one can touch you.
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  When I started this podcast, people would ask how I find the
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  time to do a Daily Show. The honest answer is that it
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  never felt like I was spending time.
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  I was enjoying the time researching quotes, crafting
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  scripts, thinking about ideas that might shift someone's
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  perspective. To me, that's play.
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  To someone on the outside, it might actually look like a daily
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  production grind. And that's exactly what
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  Novella's describing. And I think it's one of the best
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  tests available for whether you're doing the right work.
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  Not how successful it looks, but how it feels from the inside.
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  So here's the question. What feels like play to you, but
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  looks like work to everyone else?
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  Not what you think you should love.
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  Not what seems impressive or practical.
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  What actually lights you up so much that you lose track of time
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  doing it? Because that's the thing.
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  Find it and you'll never be outworked.
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  Because for you, it was never work to begin with.
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  That's it for today. I'm Andy McGivern, signing off
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  for now, but I'll be back tomorrow.
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  Same pod time, same pod station with another daily quote.