Greatness is the most demanding mistress you're ever going to encounter.

And I understand the advice that I'm about to give you is not for everyone.

Most people should turn this off.

But if you're going to stick with me, if you're going to listen to what I have to say,

it's because you want something tremendous in your life.

You want to stand out from everyone else.

You want to do something more than other people think as possible.

You literally want to stand outside the norm.

And if that's the case for you, then understand that as Albert Einstein said,

only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master.

For this reason, mastery demands all of a person.

If you want to get great, if you really want to make a skill set your own,

if you want to be able to do something and at the end of the day,

if you want to transform the world, if you want to make grand changes,

if you want to do all of that shit, all the empty words that people spout all the time,

let me tell you the only thing that's going to separate you from all the other blowhards

who are just talking words and will never do anything is to give yourself over completely

to let that obsession, let that thing that you love completely consume you.

And in that, your only chance to really become great lies.

As friends, Kafka said, don't bend, don't water down, don't try to make it logical,

rather follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Can you do that? Can you become mercilessly obsessed?

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