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This article is impressively thinly-argued for the usual standards of the Harvard Business Review. Think of physical endurance. Focusing on physical endurance
by thanatropism 9y ago
This article is impressively thinly-argued for the usual standards of the Harvard Business Review.
Think of physical endurance. Focusing on physical endurance could lead you to pointless ultramarathons, or even trying to fly off buildings, but this is as a defficiency in goal selection. A man with the same physical endurance may choose to do something entirely different with it.
(My physical endurance right now is so much lower than it was two years ago that I take buses for city stretches across which I used to walk briskly. It takes more time, more money and is vaguely humiliating, at least to my own eyes.)
- stretchwithme 9y agoThe situations described involve other character defects that can do more damage because of how resilient the person. You could say the same thing about flexibility or a good work ethic or conscientiousness. Anything can have a dark side if you package it with something bad. The other character defects are the problem. You can be very resilient and empathetic and a good leader. And we don't call a salad covered with sugary dressing "the dark side of lettuce."