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  1. Jul 2022
    1. a lot of the time i get a lot of questions these days

      @3:07:14:

      Blow: A lot of time I get a lot of questions these days by people who are asking, "How do you do a lot of work?", or, "How do you get started?" and all that. And very often these questions are themselves a procrastination, right? It's like, "Obviously, I'm in the state where I can't do a lot of work right now. So I need somebody to give me the answer before I can." And actually the secret is you sit down and decide to do it. That's all it is, right?

      Jaimungal: Seinfeld is like that. That's his famous advice to comics, to comedians.

      Blow: Mmm. Yeah. I mean—

      Jaimungal: Comedians always want to know what's the secret. He says, "Just work. Stop talking about it."

      Blow: Yeah. [...] Because that's an exc— it's like, "Oh, someday— I have permission to not actually do this work until someday somebody bestows upon me the magical[...] baton[...]"