4 September 2006 - motivational tricks

Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 2006 : 4 September 2006

Proposed Self-Motivational Lies for Inventors

1. If only I can solve Thingy, my name will be eternal. A Newton-Einstein collaboration couldn’t beat me to it.
2. Aristotle understood Thingy perfectly. I can figure it out.

clue:

Did you ever notice how much easier it is to figure something out when somebody else already knows it? But in that case, why bother?

take oh take this clue away