The last thing you do the best is what you have the most joy doing.
Interpretation
Pursuing what brings you joy can lead to your greatest achievements.
This quote emphasizes that true success comes from engaging in activities that bring you joy and fulfillment. When you do what you love, you are likely to excel and achieve remarkable results, as passion drives dedication and effort.
In practice
In a graduation speech to inspire students to pursue their passions.
Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not, by beginning at the end and contemplating the conclusions, one can determine if it's worth going through the whole to get there.
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It's never a good deal when only one party thinks it is.
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Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
I want to thank the NBA and U.S.A. Basketball. Words can't describe my feeling. I was a small town kid from Hamburg, Arkansas, and you provided me a platform to live out my passion, the game of basketball, on the world's grandest stage.
My ambition was to become the best climber and I never did. I think that goal was a wrong goal. A better one is to put more emphasis on enjoyment and on getting a rounded experience and on things like friendship, rather than on sheer achievement.
To double your net worth, double your self-worth. Because you will never exceed the height of your self-image.
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