Liften from a Zen … Follow the path
To follow the path:
look to the master,
follow the master,
walk with the master,
see through the master,
become the master.
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…get a basic thrill from solving
problems, sharpening your skills, and exercising your
intelligence.
If you aren’t the kind of person that feels this way naturally, you’ll
need to become one in order to make it as a hacker. Otherwise you’ll
find your hacking energy is sapped by distractions like sex, money, and
social approval.
(You also have to develop a kind of faith in your own learning
capacity — a belief that even though you may not know all of what you
need to solve a problem, if you tackle just a piece of it and learn
from that, you’ll learn enough to solve the next piece — and so on,
until you’re done.)
