--- > It doesn't matter how noble or ignoble your goal is. What matters is **delaying gratification**. Because even your favorite thing in the world will have shitty bits if you chew on a big enough chunk of it. - [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h0azevc1pfdfxm1rcdc76y3m) --- > I want to make something, erm, something beautiful that I love, **which is a piece of shit of a goal**. - [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h0azhtm5frz3739fn0v3w2xw) --- > But you know why beauty is your enemy? Because it sucks the fun out of things. How? Because you're making this thing and chances are, **it's not beautiful according to your own standard**. The trap is, your taste for beauty is usually ahead of your creative ability. In any area, and then in any sub-area of that area, ad infinitum, you can tell ugly from beautiful long before you can make something beautiful yourself. And even if you can satisfy your own taste, often the final thing is beautiful, but not the states it goes through. - [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h0azn784a6pb3ey1gxbgfxh9) --- > Your sense of beauty, frustrated by the state of your creation, kills all the fun – that very fun which you insist must be your only fuel. - [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h0aznvanz0xmhfzsbdv8kqk6) --- > I'm trying to make beauty a non-goal. Instead my goals are "make a point" and "keep going," and you try to add beauty, or remove ugliness, as you go. - [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h0azsac8zg8q2c2ygq9wm99n) ---