Idea 15: Don't expect an easy ride
The journey is the reward.
Chinese proverb
Living with an open-ended task or purpose in life is never going to be easy. Precise outcomes cannot be determined in advance. A high tolerance for ambiguity and willingness to venture into the unknown is needed.
‘Did you ever get lost, having no compass?’ a lady once asked the famous Kentuckian frontiersman Daniel Boone, who spent many weeks and even months wandering the vast, trackless and unmapped wilderness.
‘No,’ he replied, ‘I can't say as ever I was lost, but I was once bewildered for three days.’
Nor will you be every really satisfied. As Thomas Edison said:
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.
That is why it is wisely said that ...
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