"No go back to sleep! Just wake up and play!!" - says my two year old at 5:45am this morning (a few minutes before promptly falling back asleep). Meanwhile there I am, awake since about 5am - dreading getting up to my massive to do list. How wonderful that would be, to wake up on a Monday morning, overjoyed that I get to play. I recently spoke at Yale, where I warned students about quotes like: "Follow your passion and you'll never work another day of your life." Because that sets up the expectation that everything is all rainbows and unicorns. Instead, a deeper north star is following your purpose. Because purpose gets you through the hardship as well as sails you through the joy. But I'm realizing that the connection my brain somehow made was that if something is important enough, there will be hardship, there should be hardship. Play is all good and all, but if something is important enough, it should be work too. Play also, sur...