Paul Graham wrote a 12,000-word mega essay on how to do great work but the essence of it is a small paragraph near the end:
Curiosity is the best guide. Your curiosity never lies, and it knows more than you do about what’s worth paying attention to.
Shaan Puri confirms:
If you don’t know which path to choose, just choose the one that’s most exciting. Just keep following that, and that will lead you to the right place.
As Steve Jobs noted:
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards. So, you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path.”
“To yell at your creativity, saying, ‘You must earn money for me!’ is sort of like yelling at a cat; it has no idea what you’re talking about, and all you’re doing is scaring it away.” — Liz Gilbert
Instead, excitement is simply information.
It’s your body telling you that you’re on the right track.
That you should keep going.
How do you tell the difference between 5is and shiny object syndrome?