A couple of interesting thoughts from Peter Bregman’s original post: How Not Achieving Something Is the Key to Achieving It
Most of our jobs hinge on repetition. That's how we become good at anything. The problem is we give up too soon because anything we do repetitively becomes boring.
Anyone can do anything. As long as three conditions exist:
· You want to achieve it
· You believe you can achieve it
· You enjoy trying to achieve it
It's interesting to see that people are much better at putting up with things that happen to them than they are at living with the consequences of a bad choice.
- From Seth Godin's Blog
“I think people carrying on with their work just for money, name or out of plain curiosity have a greater chance of giving up when faced with a small adversity. If a scientist is at work for the benefit of humanity, then he will not give up. So we need a larger sense of purpose to be able to draw from a larger source of inner strength.”
The purpose determines the power.
- His Holiness, The Dalai Lama
(in an interview with Subroto Bagchi, in Zen Garden in Forbes India Magazine)
Gandhi was generous in revealing the secret of the power that allowed him to influence millions and turn the tide of history:
Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort or soul-force. Soulforce comes only through Gods grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust, he said.
- Shalini Singh in the Times of India on Sunday (Sept 13, 2009)
