The recent movie about aviation pioneer, Amelia Earhart, failed at the box office, but her spirit continues to be legendary. Earhart said:
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure – the process – is its own reward.”
Interestingly, Earhart died trying. Do you consider her death a failure – a winning of the battle, but a losing of the war? Should we romanticize her vanishing during an attempted circumnavigation of the globe in 1937 as tenacity and perseverance, or is her will power to be ascribed to something else?
If one dies trying – and ascribes it all to tenacity – is tenacity all that it is cracked up to be?
Dig deep to challenge the thinking of the collective mind – especially that part that wants to candy-coat and make it “all better.” Where does tenacity end and recklessness begin?