you have to find the next curve while you’re…
Page 119 you have to find the next curve while you’re still climbing and before you can see the endpoint of the first curve.
— from The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations)
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So stay present enough to feel the instant a situation begins asking for more attention than you are giving it. The best pilots watch ahead of the plane, hunting the next curve while still climbing the last one. And awareness is finally a moral act as much as a practical one: if conscience means anything at all, it means first and foremost the commitment to be aware. — The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations)
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)