Work, you say? Oh balls, I was afraid of that.

In response to my last post – bemoaning the dichotomy between the dream and the practice of creating – Joe Bunting has left a comment. (Thanks!) It links to a short article by Ben Stein, of Ferris Bueller fame. It’s good – so good that I had to move it to the main thread so you don’t miss it.

I know a lot of really successful people — in finance, in government, in politics, in Hollywood, in journalism, in literature.

Their common denominator is a modicum of talent and a capacity and an eagerness — not just a willingness, but an eagerness — to work like Trojans to get ahead. I don’t know of one really successful, famous man or woman who didn’t work insanely hard to get there and to stay there.

Doggone it. I guess I need to either learn to rap or sit down and write.