brooksbp

True. But you should have more motivation to keep at it and work around complicated problems. There was no mention of running away every time a project gets challenging. Just pointing out that if you truely love what you do, nothing can hold you back. If you truely love and have a passion for what you do, you should want complicated, nasty problems. You should have courage and confidence in facing these problems...

Yes, dangerous advice. But it's the truth.

It all comes down to passion/love. It's easy to get in the zone while hacking with new technology, eating Thanksgiving dinner, or having sex you know... but there's no way I could get in the zone while baking cookies.

It's simple, if you're not excited enough to automatically "get in the zone," then it's not worth struggling or trying to get in the zone... do what you love, the rest comes naturally