CASE 1
Haruki Murakami, who pulls in ₩3 billion in advances alone, has achieved a “great result” — but the [greatness] lay in the process. Every day he wrote 200 characters at a time, filling 200 sheets of manuscript paper — enough volume to amount to one full-length novel a year. He can write that much because he wants to, because the act of putting words down makes him happy, because keeping his own routine feels worthwhile — that’s how he manages to do it daily. By living through that [great] process, the “result” simply followed.
CASE 2
A stock trader who’s earned ₩10 billion also lives in a studio apartment, and the thing is — he genuinely loves trading itself.
Even now, with all the money he’s made, he stays in the familiar environment where his trades flow best — a studio — and passes the “results” along to his family. For himself, he lives for the routine, finding happiness in the act of trading itself.
What They Share
Definition: In the end, what makes a “great result” [great] is, purely and entirely, the weight of the process.
To have come to feel and understand, firsthand, that the weight behind the word “greatness” comes out of the process — that, for me, has been a tremendous piece of luck, a blessing. Because I, too, am going through these “processes” the hard way, figures like the ones above give me enormous comfort.
I’m gritting my teeth — and where the teeth are gone, biting down with my gums — and enduring, and at the same time I can feel that I’m enjoying the act itself. Still, I can’t pretend the result doesn’t matter. If some level of achievement does start to show, I’ll probably be able to enjoy this long tunnel itself even more, right?
So what? Love the very act of working through quant strategy + think about how to love it more (quant papers, lectures, etc.)
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