You have to figure out what your own aptitudes are. If you play games where other people have the aptitudes and you don’t, you’re going to lose. And that’s as close to certain as any prediction that you can make. You have to figure out where you’ve got an edge. And you’ve got to play within your own circle of competence.

我们就是土地，土地就是我们。

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.