Arnold Schwarzenegger is the governor of California. There's a perfectly ordinary English sentence. How did that happen!? Do you know how that happened? Cause I'll tell you. Do you know how he got into that position; he got there by lifting things. Now, you and me, we avoid lifting things. It's unpleasant, especially heavy things. Even a five year old child knows this. He'll go 'No haha, fuck it no, I'll go and stick Lego up my arse, I'm not doing that, no no'. He took a different approach. He lifted the heavy ... and you know, you lift something if you have to. Piano falls on granny, you lift the piano: 'cause granny has mixed feelings about the whole situation. Sunday lunch continues. He didn't do any of that. He went over to the heavy thing, and lifted it, and put it back down and didn't move it anywhere ... and then he did it again, hundreds of times, and he said to people who stopped to observe this aberrant behaviour, 'Look how good I am ... at lifting the heavy thing, in my underpants.' Now that may seem a little dim. But it was they, who said 'You're the man. You're the one we want to deal with immigration, and water rates, and taxes, and all that kinda shit. But wait, what we need to know is how bad was his predecessor at that job? This must've been someone who came to work covered in children's blood every morning.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Success comes from doing hard work that others avoid.
- In plain terms
- You get where you want by doing difficult tasks.
- What can you take from it?
- Do the hard work everyone else avoids.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What hard thing are you avoiding?
Another view
Sometimes avoiding hard tasks is reasonable self-care.
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