drinking chai with xi jinping talking about the nintendo gamecube

Obsession is a pretty powerful thing.

It’s awesome how you can get obsessed with something and spend all your energy just being obsessed with that thing.

Some of my favorite musicians are like that.

Matt Bellamy from Muse would always talk about how he’s just been obsessed with making music since he started playing piano as a kid. He was never trying to become a massive artist. He was just obsessed with building the sounds he imagined in his head.

I feel like getting obsessed with something is important.

Gives your head something to do.

You can be obsessed with building companies and products and spend a majority of your braincells on building things people love + creating value. That takes some crazy obsession.

You can be obsessed with playing League of Legends and spend every waking moment thinking about how you’re going to improve your gameplay, new strategies, etc.

You can even be obsessed with doing nothing and just be a solitary monk in the mountains. It’s actually insanely difficult to do nothing to that exent! Takes a crazy level of obsession.

I’m not sure if being obsessed with something is net-positive.

I guess it’s worked out well for me.

You can quickly find “wow, this is wack I don’t want to be obsessed with this” or “wow, this thing I’ve recently become obsessed with is actually super deep and I want to spend more time thinking about it”.

All this to say that when life feels kinda hazy, lame, sad, etc — get obsessed with something :)!