". . . the fact is I was raised like so many Americans with the expectation to be extraordinary and perhaps not so much the tools. . ."
You've acquired at least two of the tools, though: the realization that being extraordinary requires a certain amount of active becoming, rather than just breathing; and the drive to become. (I think, in contrast, of Peabrain, who once explained to me that he had Great Ideas, and needed a wife to take care of the details -- which ranged from funding the ideas to making sure he got up in time to do anything.)
I'm phrasing it badly, perhaps, but people who expect to be acknowledged as extraordinary, when all they do is breathe, get up my nose.
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Date: 2003-08-11 07:50 am (UTC)You've acquired at least two of the tools, though: the realization that being extraordinary requires a certain amount of active becoming, rather than just breathing; and the drive to become. (I think, in contrast, of Peabrain, who once explained to me that he had Great Ideas, and needed a wife to take care of the details -- which ranged from funding the ideas to making sure he got up in time to do anything.)
I'm phrasing it badly, perhaps, but people who expect to be acknowledged as extraordinary, when all they do is breathe, get up my nose.