Phil Parkin (6/19/2012)
IceDread (6/19/2012)
Phil Parkin (6/19/2012)
IceDread (6/19/2012)
Intelligence does not make you great. Some studies I read showed that if you had reached what you wanted or were content with what you had you stop to drive forward and you instead enjoy life as you have it. Then of course there are those who enjoys driving forward and with enough intelligence these people can reach very far.How many people manage this, I wonder. If you spend the first 30 or 40 years of your life striving for education, knowledge, experience, achievement and advancement and then 'arrive', can you switch your outlook to one of peace, contentment, contemplation and enjoyment of your situation? If you are accustomed to progress, accepting stasis is tough.
If you wanted to be the worlds greatest pianist you probably would be. If you are not, you probably did not want it enough since you didnt invest the time and effort into it. Just like that, if you are happy enough with a specific woman and have enough wealth to make you happy, why invest more time and effort into something when you have what actually makes you happy or content?
Easy enough to say from a totally logical standpoint (though quite what happens when 1,000 extremely driven people all want to be the world's greatest pianist is unclear.)
But, in my opinion, not so easy in practice - we're not computers & there are other factors in play here. Even developers have emotions :hehe:
That's the point, our emotions, our will, what we actually want without perhaps even thinking about it. That is what you do.
I want to be insanely rich, but I'm not. Obviously I'm happy enough as is and more slowly doing something about it than devoting all my time to it.