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I'd certainly like to be Awesome, but there are a lot of ways of becoming Awesome that take far more work than I'm willing to do. (Per Scott Adams, "work" is defined as "anything you'd rather not be doing right now.")
I did have a plan that I'd been working on for becoming Sufficiently Awesome, but I've hit a setback. If I were to qualify for the Magic Pro Tour, I'd consider myself Sufficiently Awesome. (Zvi said he's not particularly interested letting me work with him on Magic unless I actually managed to qualify.) When I heard that the next Pro Tour Qualifier format was going to be Modern, I was very happy, because I had a really good deck for that format. Had being the operative word, because a very important card in that deck just got banned. :(
I spent the first half of the year trying to be awesome in a way that required willpower and hard work that I didn't want to do. I spent the second half of the year trying to be awesome in a way that I totally enjoyed the entire time, never had to force myself into, and involved loads of hard work that I loved every minute of.
My not-so-humble opinion is that it worked out pretty well.
Please expound?
It's not as simple as I just made it sound, and no I won't expound here right now, but I am planning to do a "year one of rationality, in review" a little later. The specific applications won't generalize for most people but hopefully some of the underlying thought processes will be useful.
Looking forward to it!