CHANAN GREENBLATT

I used to think greatness came from big ideas. The big picture. The grand vision.

But I was wrong.

Greatness lives in the smallest, most overlooked moments. The tiny choices. The details that seem insignificant but make all the difference.

Carl Jung said, "Modern man can't see God because he doesn't look low enough." That hit me.

If you're searching for something deeper—truth, meaning, mastery—you have to look lower. Keep going. Until you bow before the work itself. Until it consumes you entirely.

In that moment, there's no distraction. No ego. Just the work.

And in that, you find everything.

To learn, one must go through pain.
"No pain..."

The fastest way to learn coding is to let GenAI run wild, wrecking your project with 4,000 lines of bloated CSS and endless duplicate classes. Solving easy problems by stacking code instead of finding the one clean solution. Complexity snowballs.

This happened because:

I didn't plan ahead.
I got overexcited. Finally, I could build my own stuff.
I was impatient.
I never stopped to ask the agent: "Look at what we've already done. Can we optimize?"

PAIN unlocked.
Lesson learned.
Next round incoming.

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