Paul Graham : Speech for a High School Graduation
What You’ll Wish You’d Known
I came across this in The Slacker Manager blog. Another essay from Paul Graham who I posted about earlier this month. the essay/speech contains a lot of gems, but I singled out his comments about curiosity:
… Kids are curious, but the curiosity I mean has a different shape from kid curiosity. Kid curiosity is broad and shallow; they ask why at random about everything. In most adults this curiosity dries up entirely. It has to: you can’t get anything done if you’re always asking why about everything. But in ambitious adults, instead of drying up, curiosity becomes narrow and deep. The mud flat morphs into a well.
Curiosity turns work into play…
Trick is to turn the play into money, eh?
