Does Struggle Enhance Achievement?
Struggle is a meaningless component of success and
accomplishment. 'That which we obtain too cheaply we do not value dearly.' That is facile grandiloquent hogwash.
What is path compared to destination? Social advocates are purveyors of compromised goods. Expended effort does not add to the value of achievement. Mozart composed on the fly, and marvleously so. Mozart did not see a keyboard, Mozart saw music.
Genius is the antithesis of labored effort. PET and functional MRI studies at UC/Irvine are emprically definitive. Naive subjects suffering Tetris have poor scores and brains illuminated with excess metabolism. Add a month of practice. Practised subjects have high Tetris scores and one minuscule volume of anomalous cerebral activity. They appear to be sleeping. Genius is efficient not tortured.
Perceiving that great scarifice ennobles accomplishment maybe personally satisfying. It may blunt the pain of personal loss. Applying it to the real world where lfie and death are not aribrary foments disaster. The USSR had a tortured economy. What of value did it achieve? The US economy is tortured by the EPA, HHS, OSHA, Homeland Severity... What incremental values does it enjoy? Struggle does not enhance achievement.
Comments
Cynical, but it's my favourite so far.
Posted by: Scott | October 2, 2006 11:01 PM
Extremely pretentious.
Posted by: zomg | October 3, 2006 8:22 AM