Jerry Seinfeld: A Perfect Example Of Commitment To One’s Craft
I saw this short, inspiring, and funny video of Jerry Seinfeld on how it took him two years to write the perfect joke about Pop-Tarts. Yes, two years!
After watching the video, what remained with me was how we stick with certain things when we love them. It doesn’t matter if we have eaten or slept, and it doesn’t matter how much we get paid, how much we would be appreciated, or how it would even help our careers.
Everything becomes noise before pursuing that thing because the joy is in progress. And the pursuit becomes stressful when we work for a proxy rather than the work itself. Sometimes the proxy is prestige(I work for Google), title(hello, CEO), or money(I’m making a quadrillion dollars.)
Most of our waking life is about choosing proxies and then rationalizing our choices to ourselves — and others.
Wouldn’t life be simpler(perhaps, happier) if we chose the pursuit rather than the proxy?