Instant gratification it is truly one of the most destructive diseases of our day. If I give up playing a sport because I lose a game, or if I quit playing an instrument because I missed a note... sounds stupid.
Nothing in this world is so unwise than the celebration of worldly wisdom. This celebration is so founded on fluid thought that it can only be celebrated by a man or woman willing to let go of everything they have thought up till now for whatever is shiny and new in front of them. In this pursuit, there is so little tenacity that the core of what is needed for wisdom is lost the moment a new thought is presented.
As our modern political field is teaching us, there is nothing so unproductive and hollow as the pursuit of immediate victory and the necessary follow up abandonment of every core belief because of the latest poll.
There is nothing that fails like success.
