keep right up this long hill, then, when you…
Page 117 keep right up this long hill, then, when you get to the top, look down into the little deep beyond.
— from Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience) · 21 letters on life and its challenges by Charles handy
In the book
And remember the lesson of the geological fault — communities and people that are rigid, that cannot make room for their own weak points, do not bend under pressure; they crack. And then there is perseverance. Most people, William James noticed, never run far enough on their first wind to discover that they have a second; the trick is simply to keep climbing — to find the next curve while you are still on the first, before you can even see where it ends. The impatience to watch for is the one Rabbi Weinberg named: you want to be great, you just want it to happen in a single day, and on that day you want to sleep. — Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience)