.@naval: “If you’re interested in it now, then you’ll be interesting about it later.” “@DavidDeutschOxf has a great criterion, which he calls the fun criterion. He says, just do whatever’s fun, and you’ll kind of find your way to it. And there’s a lot to that because that’s what you’ll be most interested in. That’s what you’ll stick with. That’s what you’ll go deepest in. If you’re interested in it now, then you’ll be interesting about it later. And so I think Deutsch has really a good criterion. I would expand on that for myself: What do I have the most fun doing? Because fun is a little too broad, right? You could have fun partying and drinking, and that’s fine too. Live your life. I would say that for me, the fun criterion is the learning criterion. I live for that “aha!” moment when two things that I didn’t realize were connected, connect together. You get that feeling of oneness, and you get closer to source, if you will. And so, anything that connects two things in my mind that were disconnected, forms a tighter, deeper explanation, and shows me a deeper theory—is fun. And that’s what motivates me.”

one thing about people is that they love to contribute towards solving finite, observable problems with clear solutions. they’ll happily do it even at a moderate personal cost, because it feels so good to have made a tangible difference to something