Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle. - Hugh MacLeod

YOU DON’T KNOW IF YOUR IDEA IS ANY GOOD the moment it’s created. Neither does anyone else. The most you can hope for is a strong gut feeling that it is. And trusting your feelings is
not as easy as the optimists say it is. There’s a reason why feelings scare us — because what they tell us and what the rest of the world tells us are often two different things.

But Andrew was right about one thing. Human beings need to tell stories. Historically, it's the quickest way we have for transmitting useful information to other members of our species. Stories are not simply nice things to have; they are essential survival tools.
And yes, the stories we tell ourselves are just as important as the stories we tell other people.

I work extremely hard doing what I love, mainly to ensure that I don't have to work extremely hard doing what I hate.