Curator Cat on Patience and Perseverance
Humans are funny, sometimes!
You guys expect things to happen to you that have very little rational chance of happening. Some might call it magical thinking. It seems to happen most often when setting out to "do" something...
There's often a "reality gap" between how much work you think something is going to take, and how much work it ACTUALLY is. Inevitably, disappointment becomes part of the equation.
I'm not stating this as a criticism, merely as a observation.
The other day, I overheard a conversation in which someone was arguing that Humans probably wouldn't start 90% of their projects if they actually realized how much work they were in for.
Which made me contemplate where on earth people get the idea that life somehow comes with an "Easy Button."
Sometimes, I've heard people call it "The Lottery Effect."
We live in a day and age where many people see the path to their success as some variation on "winning the lottery" or "making a big score." The idea of accomplishing things through diligent patience and perseverance (and simply hard work) is giving way to more of a paradigm of "luck" as the path to... success? Getting what you want?
It's funny for me to say that, as a cat. Cats are often inherently lazy and sleep 16 hours a day. But we still don't believe baskets of mice and flightless birds will fall from the sky... we actually have to get up and go CATCH them!
Of course, there are exceptions to prove the rule. Some Humans are very diligent and hard working! But even so, "magical thinking" seems like a growing trend...
Hope you've all had a beautiful day!
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I think luck is essential to hard work. You can work so much your hands fall off and still not succeed without a little luck. With luck you might even avoid your hands falling off in the first place ^^ true story
Us humans also don't understand that we have to give up some things in order to achieve our long term goals.
Luck is a very interesting idea, to be sure.
Are there incidents where "random luck" happens out of the blue? Absolutely!
But I also believe we often make our own luck. Or at least parts of our own luck. Let's say you receive an invitation to put your art in a major gallery, seemingly "out of nowhere." To some degree, perhaps it is luck. But then again, perhaps it is also the result of years spent creating excellent work and doing good social media... you "put yourself in the picture."
Life is fascinating, with its possibilities!
But I would definitely not want to lose my hands (or paws)!
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Sweet!
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