Did you hear about the two teenage boys who canoed 2,200 miles in Minnesota. They evidently started in the spring at the height of the flood season and one of the teenagers described the experience as running up a down escalator.
Why would anyone want to do such a thing? Well, they were following a course charted in the early 30s'--but one of the main reasons they persisted through food poisoning, mother nature, hunger, etc. was the naysayers. They wanted to prove someone wrong. All the people that said they would never be able to make such a journey.
That's a fairly powerful urge.
How many times have we persisted in something just to discount the naysayers? I was thinking this through while listening to the NPR report. Is proving someone wrong a positive motivator--or simply spite?
Not sure I have a good answer for that one. But, I do applaud the desire to chart new territory. Even if the nudge to get there is as clear as mud.
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