What makes you run?
Metaphorically speaking.
What's in it for you when the person running behind you sees the full soles of your shoes and your elbows catching air? And the person in front of you suddenly hears foot steps?
What would make you chase a goal so intently that the list of things you exclude to maintain your focus is almost as long as the list of steps to the end itself?
Why do you have no answer when someone asks "Is that fun for you?"
Have you been told that this choice is crazy?
The passion of relentless obstinancy cannot be understated. There is no substitute for desire. You can't teach it, you can't coach it, but you can spot it in someone's character and hope that person is forever on your side. It's the intangible that no stat sheet can quantify.
A person who, in the balance of things, will tip toward personal achievement over personal comfort is infinitely more likely to realize long term potential. Success and pain are not typically considered in the same instance, but that may be because the former eclipses the latter with really good endorphins, not because the path was a climate controlled walk with well lit directional arrows.
Motivation can sustain a project when raw talent without motivation will fail. A motivated person who can ultimately claim domain expertise is potentially unstoppable, and domain expertise is part talent and part determination. Therefore it's anybody's bootstrap to grab.
And you thought the American Dream had drifted back into a deep REM cycle. It never went anywhere, it's just that recently we thought we had to be asleep to have it. Time to wake up.
So what makes you run?
Metaphorically speaking.
What's in it for you when the person running behind you sees the full soles of your shoes and your elbows catching air? And the person in front of you suddenly hears foot steps?
What would make you chase a goal so intently that the list of things you exclude to maintain your focus is almost as long as the list of steps to the end itself?
Why do you have no answer when someone asks "Is that fun for you?"
Have you been told that this choice is crazy?
The passion of relentless obstinancy cannot be understated. There is no substitute for desire. You can't teach it, you can't coach it, but you can spot it in someone's character and hope that person is forever on your side. It's the intangible that no stat sheet can quantify.
A person who, in the balance of things, will tip toward personal achievement over personal comfort is infinitely more likely to realize long term potential. Success and pain are not typically considered in the same instance, but that may be because the former eclipses the latter with really good endorphins, not because the path was a climate controlled walk with well lit directional arrows.
Motivation can sustain a project when raw talent without motivation will fail. A motivated person who can ultimately claim domain expertise is potentially unstoppable, and domain expertise is part talent and part determination. Therefore it's anybody's bootstrap to grab.
And you thought the American Dream had drifted back into a deep REM cycle. It never went anywhere, it's just that recently we thought we had to be asleep to have it. Time to wake up.
So what makes you run?
I think the word you are looking for pb.- is "grit".
ReplyDeleteProbably colechee grit where you come from, amigo. pb
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