A Legendary Creator Explains How To Do Great Work In Four Unsimple Steps
<p>About seven hundred years ago, <a href="https://medium.com/mind-cafe/a-great-poets-immortal-guide-for-those-who-feel-lost-in-life-14ad5206bf31" rel="noopener">Dante Alighieri</a> penned <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Divine-Comedy-Inferno-Purgatorio-Paradiso/dp/0451208633" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><em>The Divine Comedy</em></a>, one of the archetypal stories in modern literature. While classified as a religious text, it’s much more. Namely, it’s a reflection on being lost in life, and trying to find a pathway into the light of clarity.</p>
<p>Today, many things are still murky. For instance, how does one figure out what areas or fields they should devote their life to? And if you know, what does it take to become extraordinary in your chosen path?</p>
<p>Well, Dante ultimately found his way with the help of worthy guides who showed him the right route from the depths to paradise. But what about us?</p>
<p>While we don’t have Mr. Alighieri’s literary guides, we do have someone who’s navigated the path of work and creation extremely well. <a href="http://paulgraham.com/bio.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Paul Graham</a> is a mixture of investor, programmer, and author.</p>
<p>He cofounded the first software as a service company called Viaweb, which Yahoo purchased in 1998. He also cofounded Y Combinator, which has funded over three thousand startups such as Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, and Reddit. He’s written three books. Plus, his website gets over twenty-five million visitors per year.</p>
<p>Graham became fascinated with finding an “intersection” for doing extraordinary work in multiple disciplines and sought to sketch it in a guide. After working with so many talented creators, he found four steps they usually followed.</p>
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