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The Truth About Gumption Traps
- peter_d_sherman 4y ago>"In his 1974 novel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig coined the term gumption trap. Here he explains the power of gumption while working on a motorcycle: “Gumption is the psychic gasoline that keeps the whole thing going. If you haven’t got it there’s no way the motorcycle can possibly be fixed. But if you have got it and know how to keep it there’s absolutely no way in the whole world that motorcycle can keep from getting fixed. It’s bound to happen. Therefore the thing that must be monitored at all times and preserved before anything else is the gumption.“"