Showing posts with label project. Show all posts
Showing posts with label project. Show all posts

Monday, 16 January 2012

Workouts, masochism, and Velcro. Four common pitfalls and the elements for true success.

Kind of a strange topic? Well, I spent two years of graduate philosophy researching it, and I would agree. But to succeed at the project of life, very necessary.

As I was looking for some kind of definition or motivating quote, everything that kept popping up was either Nietzche or Machiavelli and the will-to-power. I decided against the quotes, but I dare to say that willpower for you is probably tainted by these ideas.

Saturday, 14 January 2012

"What's up with the title?" - Part II: Project, what project?

Seems everyone's quoting Tebow to insult or praise. I must be stuck with the fever: 

"This is an opportunity where great things can happen and lets be great right now. Everybody believe and we went out there and achieved it because our faith and our relentlessness to keep fighting."

His faith is making big news, but we're going to focus on the second part - relentless fighting. Tebow wasn't born a national championship football quarterback or with a superbowl ring on his finger for that matter. What did it?