can play havoc with internal progress.
We always have a choice. Wait for that dream job to get back to you, or keep applying. Wait for that award shortlist, or keep shipping. Wait for that venture capitalist to say they funded you, or keep building.
Sometimes, it all works out as per plan and as per expectation. Most of the time, there are twists in the tail. And even if it seems to work out, life still throws in the occasional curve ball.
How to get around it? There’s no getting around it. Anticipation, elation and disappointment are a part of life. External stimuli do that to us.
The only solution is to outweigh the external stimuli with internal strength. Just repeat “Gotta keep chipping away. Gotta keep chipping away…”
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And – which is more – you’ll be a Man, my son!
A Learning a Day 