This week, I was very interested in the part of the reading that talked about how some people leave West Point after the first semester, and others go on to "military mastery" The answer was grit. My question is; If you have a certian level of grit, can you still master something that could require more grit? In other words, can you still master something if you dont have enough grit? I think that true mastery can only come from genuine passion about something. Even if you work really hard, you wont be a master unless your grit matches the pain you have to go through to get there.
This quote from the Flow introduction opened up a new perspective for me. In our busy and seemingly purposeful lives it's hard to consider the fact that Earth wasn't built to accommodate us and to make sure we were constantly happy. As the article said, we can't take our planet for granted. My question for this week is: if our ancestors who went through so much to survive could see us today, what would they think? Is our modern world "progress" or a kind of degeneration?
This week, I was very interested in the part of the reading that talked about how some people leave West Point after the first semester, and others go on to "military mastery" The answer was grit. My question is; If you have a certian level of grit, can you still master something that could require more grit? In other words, can you still master something if you dont have enough grit? I think that true mastery can only come from genuine passion about something. Even if you work really hard, you wont be a master unless your grit matches the pain you have to go through to get there.
