Great work is usually done far younger than its fame suggests: people were grey-haired when they became famous, not when they did the work.

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• Work has become more enjoyable for the millennial generation, even as the belief that meaningful work requires suffering has gone largely unquestioned. PMPaul Millerd28 Mar 2026
• Because great writers already exist, a writer is driven past what has been done, to where no one can help EHErnest Hemingway10 Dec 1954
• Over the long run, the average person who keeps putting themselves in a good position beats the genius who is in a poor one, and what looks like talent is often good positioning. SPShane Parrish3 Oct 2023
• Great achievers' powers were the fruit of intense labour; genetics seemed to play only a minor role RGRobert Greene1 Oct 2012
• Making something great is the opposite of resembling what is already recognised as great. NCNick Cave16 Jan 2023

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