Porque no los dos?

They say… Love what you do as a creator, have fun, and it gets easier to keep going even without results.

Follow your passion. Love what you do. Do what feels like play to you but work to others. Only intrinsic motivation lasts. Commit ten years to it and see what happens. As long as you trend up, success will come one day.

Okay I know I know. But there’s only we long we can last without seeing any results. We at least need some feedback and data—positive or negative—to close the causation loop. How long can anyone last on ideals but with ZERO data, for 10 years? I doubt anyone can.

BUT! With just a tiny show of results, it gets more fun and easy to love what you do.

You build and tweet about it in public, and people are excited, so you build and tweet more. You launch, and some people tried it, gave you good feedback, and it drives you to build it out more. People start paying you, and your sense of purpose goes up 10x.

The hard truth is…

Ideals are nice, but we can’t always operate in isolation from reality.

Porque no los dos? (means Why not both?)

We need both intrinsic and extrinsic motivators.