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The Pathless Path

Not Overthinking

CHAPTER

What's Your Motivation for the Book?

Vangatesh describes motivation as not a single thing. He says, many oncproners start out with the chip on the shoulder kind of motive. The good ones eventually graduate to actually wanting the thing that they are building. Wanting things is not something you can just do beyond age three. You have to learn to zoom in on the thing that vaguely attracts you and then figure out what goals you actually want.

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