Too Much Work?

Sometimes it is good to be overwhelmed with work. It forces you to find aggressive techniques to systematise and control the surrounding chaos.

The Art of AES

When Godfrey Hardy wrote that a man with any genuine talent in anything must be willing to make almost any sacrifice in order to cultivate it to the full, he was writing about the Art of Acquiring Extraordinary Skills. If you want to acquire extraordinary skills you can't get too attached to academic work. You need to find time to practise what you want to get good at and practise incessantly. Your work ethic needs to be beyond what anyone else can prescribe for you. Hardy in mathematics, Bruce Lee in martial arts, Michaelangelo in painting the Sistine Chapel, it all amounts to the same thing - mastery of the Art of Acquiring Extraordinary Skills.