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Justin Welsh
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Most people ask, "How do I work less?"
The better question is, "How do I love what I work on?"
One leads to boredom, while the other leads to a mission you never retire from.
Welsh argues that loving your work beats minimizing it, framing mission-driven work as superior to leisure-seeking
Category-Error CatchTwo different problems collapsed into one frame
Work-less and love-what-you-do are separate problems. One is a capacity problem. The other is a fit problem. Solving fit first often dissolves the capacity question, but not always. Operators running payroll rarely get to skip the hours just because the mission is right.
Validate-Before-Scale AxiomLove is a lagging indicator, not a starting condition
Most people don't love the work until after the first real result. Passion follows proof. The question that actually moves things: what problem can I solve well enough that someone pays me before I feel anything about it.
Tactic vs Systems AxiomFraming love as the system misses the mechanism
Loving the work keeps you at the desk. It doesn't make the desk produce. The people I've seen burn out hardest loved their mission most. The variable wasn't feeling - it was whether the model could fund the obsession long enough to compound.
