ThinkBlog

I think the “meat of the nut” when it comes to motivation and the lack thereof is that peoples’ hopelessness is the most degrading, horrifying thing to spring from an indolent spirit and mind.

When a person throws up his hands and says, “Ah, well, so much for that: I simply cannot do X,” and then leaves it at that, it is a kind of stubbornness that leads from apathy to death. However foolish it is to cling to false hopes, dismissing viable ones is just as bad. Whether it’s the Christian who stops going to church and reading the Word and praying, or the student who drops out, or the couch potato who’s letting his body go, all of these people have made that damnable mistake of letting their laziness get in the way of achievable goals.

I think the “meat of the nut” when it comes to motivation and the lack thereof is that peoples’ hopelessness is the most degrading, horrifying thing to spring from an indolent spirit and mind.

When a person throws up his hands and says, “Ah, well, so much for that: I simply cannot do X,” and then leaves it at that, it is a kind of stubbornness that leads from apathy to death. However foolish it is to cling to false hopes, dismissing viable ones is just as bad. Whether it’s the Christian who stops going to church and reading the Word and praying, or the student who drops out, or the couch potato who’s letting his body go, all of these people have made that damnable mistake of letting their laziness get in the way of achievable goals.