Stop searching for magic tricks. Roll up your sleeves and get to work. The fool will find this idea depressing. The wise person will find this liberating. So it goes.
~ Hugh Macleod
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No.
But I do still agree with Hugh.
You see, it’s really a paradox: Understanding that the trick is that there is no trick enables you to see the trick.
Only after you truly believe there is no trick, and you truly roll up your sleeves and get to work—and not just work for a day or a week or a year, but instead truly pour your entire self into something…
Only after you truly believe there is no trick, and you truly roll up your sleeves and get to work, can you understand what the trick really is.
Reading this now, you either know the trick—congratulations, honestly and I’m sorry you had to suffer along the way but look what you’ve learned…
Reading this now, you either know the trick, or you need to roll up your sleeves and get to work.
What? …you thought I was going to tell you the trick? But, I just did.
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