The Reward for Good Work Is More Work
Published August 09, 2024 · 59s · 165,838 views
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Fifty-nine seconds. Van was scrolling through Amazon Prime when he discovered his friend had been nominated for an Oscar. The jubilation was not about the statue. It was about what the statue meant: his friend could keep working. In the words of that artist, the reward for good work is more work. A Tom Sachs Studio maxim. Van compresses a career into that single observation: mastery does not produce leisure. It produces harder problems. The people who complain about this misunderstand the game.
Transcript
this spirited man was scrolling through Amazon Prime recently when he discovered his friend was nominated for aing Oscar
he was possessed by this Jubilation not because of the heavy golden statue but because this meant his friend could keep
working to put it in the words of this artist the reward for good work is more work the second thing that the artist
taught the spirited man was a magic trick and the magic trick that the artist taught this spirited man is is called sympathetic magic if you truly
want something then make your version of that thing out of whatever you have at your disposal and due to unpredictable
forces beyond your control the universe may align just right to get you that
thing sounds stupid but it works even if you don't believe in it so here is his Oscar Shrine to this spirited woman
Products & Tools Mentioned
- Amazon Prime mentions — scrolling Amazon Prime when discovering friend's Oscar nomination
People Referenced
Tom Sachs