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Originally Posted by ahimel  I can't remember where I read someone saying that committment makes all the difference. If you decide that you're going to get to Philadelphia, you'll get there. If you can't afford a plane ticket, you'll buy a bus ticket. If the bus breaks down, you'll hitchike. If no one will pick you up, you'll walk. If you break a leg, you'll hobble. But you'll get there. |
I suppose this is technically true, but the question instead then mutates into whether one has what degree of commitment to see a given goal succeed
at what cost.
To borrow from your example, not everyone is so desperate to get to a location that hobbling there on a broken leg is preferable to getting an ambulance to a local hospital to get it fixed and having to arrive later, or for that matter, necessarily preferable to not being able to show up there at all until one can afford the bus ticket and the time it takes for the bus trip.