Perseverance is difficult, for a fundamentally understandable reason: we don't know whether we'll succeed or not!
I'm more and more convinced that this is at the core of the human experience. Our lack of knowledge about success, and our willingness to continually try to find success, even when we don't know that what we're doing will give it to us.
This is particularly acute in developing years, when options close down because of self-selection. How I wish now that I didn't do what I spent 5 years doing!
I'm not one to gloss over this fact (REGRET) with an easy melody, one that follows the rhythmic intonation: "I had to do that to get where I am today." Nope, don't buy it. You, or I could have just wasted time given our goals now.
This kind of drives me nuts because it is an argument for paternalism. At least until a certain age, people should be told what is good for them, because they simply don't know.
Then again, maybe I'm still being highly romantic in that I think there are a lot of options for most people. Maybe I'm wrong in this sense even though I want to be right.
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