When did you pull an all-nighter?
That All-Nighter Obsession
Maybe you’ve never pulled an all-nighter. You're not that type of person. But I’m talking about that feeling. When you care about every word. Every line. Every detail. I can't shake those times when everything fell away and I was obsessed—some might say possessed—with a singular goal. That application, edit test, big job, special magazine issue. And every time I felt that fiercely, I hit my target. Because when you care that much, how can those feelings not show up in your work?
What goal would make you drop everything and stay up all night?
"Very few people have the humility to start as amateurs. They procrastinate doing the work they want in the name of perfectionism. You know these people. The one’s who have been saying for years that they’re going to do something but never do. Yet inwardly, they’re terrified of what other people will think of them. They’re caught in a state of paralysis by analysis — too busy calculating and never reaching a state of flow. Rather than doing work their own way, they do what they think will be well-received —being merely imitators of what is already popular.”
Welp, this makes me supremely uncomfortable. Because it's true.
From How to Become the Best in the World at What You Do by Benjamin P. Hardy (thanks Brother for the recommend)
One of the Best Humans I Know
I met Ronnie Cho at Newsweek and The Daily Beast. He did everything—he can do anything. He came to us from the Obama administration; he worked on O's campaign way back when. Currently he’s over at MTV running Public Affairs. But now he’s running for New York’s City Council in District 2 (East Village, Alphabet City, Lower East Side, Gramercy Park, Kips Bay and Union Square). Let’s show him some early support, shall we? Donate and follow him here.
Thank you for reading.
Love, Kara