How strong is your will to achieve? How potent is your desire to excel? Do you seek to find ways to better yourself? Are you an industrious person? So lacking in our modern, convenient world is a sense of industriousness.
We are spoiled. We press buttons, flip switches, and even simply speak to accomplish things that used to require work or effort to accomplish. Our cleverness has been the undoing of our industriousness. Always seeking an easier or more convenient way to perform a task does not necessarily translate well to life. There are no shortcuts to take in relationships. There is no way to make dealing with a tragedy easier or more efficient.
A return to industriousness would spark a revival in this country of good old-fashioned getting things done! Having a strong sense of industriousness does not preclude one from also being clever. The reality is quite to the contrary- being industrious has been what has propelled great minds to their clever discoveries, inventions, and achievements. Without that strong work ethic, cleverness becomes mere cuteness. A neat idea stripped of the hard work that develops it only produces novelty. However, when a clever mind employs a strong desire to excel, greatness is achieved.
Don't shy away from being industrious. Success travels in the company of very hard work. There are no shortcuts. Let your industriousness couple with your cleverness to produce excellence.
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