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Running isn’t an activity where you need much mental fortitude. But in sailing in 10 Beaufort or climbing in extreme weather it is all about mental fortitude n
by chewz 3y ago
Running isn’t an activity where you need much mental fortitude.
But in sailing in 10 Beaufort or climbing in extreme weather it is all about mental fortitude not physical strength or training. Some people just quit, give up and others stand at the steering wheel for 6 hours despite soaked clothes and blowing gale.
- onetimeuse92304 3y agoHeck, I am observing candidates giving up during interviews or experienced software engineers giving up during outages. I would say both also require mental fortitude.
- fullspectrumdev 3y agoI mean, I’ve quit an interview process several times - usually because they were dragging it out, or because the interview process hinted to me I’d not enjoy working there. Interviews are bidirectional information exchanges - the company is also pitching itself to the candidate during the process.
- onetimeuse92304 3y agoI only had candidates leave my interview twice out of probably couple thousand interviews. And that was when I caught them cheating. What I mean by giving up is what happens when a person loses the will to fight.
- blobberz 3y agoDo you have a lot of experience with competitive running (racing)?
- snowwrestler 3y agoIn extreme weather, the weather is what is testing your mental fortitude. In many such situations you can’t “just quit” once you have entered the conditions, other than essentially committing suicide by ceasing to protect yourself. You can’t turn off the weather and go home just because you’re unhappy. In running, it is your own body that is testing your mental fortitude. To be more specific, it is the extreme physical discomfort one experiences while training and competing. And unlike life-or-death extreme weather, you really can quit at any point. It is a totally optional activity at all times. So yes, it requires quite a lot of mental fortitude to keep doing something so physically unpleasant, every day, in pursuit of a personal goal.