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Jerry Seinfeld: I'm never not working on material. Every second of my existence, I'm thinking, could I do something with that? Howard Stern: That, to me, sounds torturous. Seinfeld: Your blessing in life is when you find the torture you're comfortable with.

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Billy Oppenheimer3 years ago

Takeaway: Find the torture you love. To Howard Stern, what Jerry Seinfeld does sounds like torture. But Seinfeld loves what he does. Paul Graham has a great essay on this imbalance.

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Billy Oppenheimer3 years ago

In his twenties, Henry Ford worked as an engineer with The Edison Company. After a long shift, he’d go home and work on what became the Ford Motor Company. Of these long days of constant work, Ford wrote, “I cannot say that it was hard work. No work with interest is ever hard.”

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Billy Oppenheimer3 years ago

“Your blessing in life is when you find the torture you're comfortable with…find the torture you're comfortable with and you'll do well.” — Jerry Seinfeld Follow @bpoppenheimer for more content like this!

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Brett Dashevsky3 years ago

Essentially “when work feels like play, no one can out-compete you”

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Dr. Julie Gurner3 years ago

Howard Stern is such an underrated interviewer - that guy has some spectacular unfiltered (well, less filtered) conversations with people that are so insightful.

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j.c.smith3 years ago

@MeredithFrost As Robert Blake once said to Tom Snyder, if you’re lucky you have a talent, if you’re really lucky you find out what that talent is.

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P1SteveInBastrop3 years ago

A music composer is always composing, arranging, tweaking, rearranging, reharmonizing, and recreating, etc. This is not torture. It’s our world.

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Will DeCotiis3 years ago

Interesting way of putting it, but I think he’s right … once you find what you like to do, it’s hard to be away from it

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Cats in Space3 years ago

@RexChapman Remember when Seinfeld dated a 17 year old girl tho?

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Billy3 years ago

@heydannymiranda great answer to your question contigent on finding that "thing"

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