One of the biggest disconnects between school and reality: schools give you credit for effort, but customers don't. Young founders often get whiplash from this transition at YC. After 21 years of getting credit for effort, it suddenly stops.
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That would do as well as anything as a definition of adulthood: when you stop getting credit for effort.
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Students receive credit for effort precisely because the tasks imposed on them are (almost ostentatiously) without intrinsic interest. Adults choose both the tasks they undertake and the methods used to undertake them. It's easy to exert yourself toward something you want to do.
9:19 AM - 17 Jan 2019
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