Another method is to be the best (or most patient, or most thorough) writer in your particular domain, or in general being the pareto-best in the world.
That’s an interesting post, thanks. But I think you can bring value with your creations even if you’re neither pareto optimal nor one-dimension top performer. So if you write scifi stories, you might still write some interesting stuff and deliver inspiring idea even if you don’t have unique mixture of non-usual-sci-fi-writer traits in any tangible sense. You’re not the best skateboard-scifi writer. You’re just an average scifi writer and it’s fine.
So my point is in this case you might still need motivation. Maybe to develop your unique style or hit the niche market in the future. But if from the very beginning you compare yourself to superhumans boosted to the right side of the distribution by their unique genome or other irreproducible factors, you might never even start.
Another method is to be the best (or most patient, or most thorough) writer in your particular domain, or in general being the pareto-best in the world.
That’s an interesting post, thanks. But I think you can bring value with your creations even if you’re neither pareto optimal nor one-dimension top performer. So if you write scifi stories, you might still write some interesting stuff and deliver inspiring idea even if you don’t have unique mixture of non-usual-sci-fi-writer traits in any tangible sense. You’re not the best skateboard-scifi writer. You’re just an average scifi writer and it’s fine. So my point is in this case you might still need motivation. Maybe to develop your unique style or hit the niche market in the future. But if from the very beginning you compare yourself to superhumans boosted to the right side of the distribution by their unique genome or other irreproducible factors, you might never even start.