Funny is just a multiplier. It’s the grind that makes you a great comic.
Ideas vs. execution, the exponential function, and the freedom-specificity tradeoff.
Derek Sivers: Ideas are just a multiplier of execution.
Ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.
It’s the same with being funny. Funny is worth nothing without grind – the writing, the performing, the honing, the repetition, etc. Funny is just a multiplier. It’s the grind that makes you a great comic.
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