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sark comments on Rationality Quotes: May 2011 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: sark 10 May 2011 08:27:13PM 5 points [-]

You won't be great just by sitting there of course, but I suspect great people wouldn't be as great if they weren't driven by an urge to achieve greatness to some extent for its own sake.

Great people also like to countersignal how their greatness was never something they had in mind, and that they are just truly dedicated to their art.