Reading ‘Zorba the Greek’, I kept catching myself thinking, “How does he write so effortlessly? As if he had actually been right there in the scene — how does the next moment just turn into prose the instant he imagines it?” The descriptions and metaphors were so vivid that I found myself sinking into the heavy, musty air of that tavern inside the novel.
- In the end, awe and emotion seem to live in [the details]. Am I taking it seriously enough to actually wrestle with the details?
- Anyone can get this far. Anyone can build up to this point. But the details beyond it? That’s a world only a few people can touch — or even see.
- The same goes for Haruki Murakami. For “decades,” his routine has been: up at 4 AM, then five hours of writing every day (twenty sheets of 200-character manuscript paper), then exercise in the afternoon.
- To others, I probably look much the same. The past 7 years & 4 AM & running my own business. What if I run my business (quant) on that kind of routine?
To other people, it would look pretty remarkable — almost uncanny.
”How does he churn out these brain-melting quant strategies so effortlessly?”
“How has he kept it up for that long?"
"How deeply must he be thinking about this?"
"He must be smart, right? Me? No way.”
So what? : If you trust the sweat you’ve already put in, then go all the way down — into the details of the strategy itself.
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