I'm going to push back on "You can’t relate to Jordan or Napoleon or Trump’s mindset. If you could the world would know of the product of your relentlessness." (specifically, the last sentence)
That's true if you're relentlessness is something visible to the world.
It's probably still true even if it's for something intangible, like "become the world's foremost expert in XYZ."
It doesn't hold true for something hidden, like relentlessly pursuing being a great husband/dad, sacrificing all else towards that end. You could successfully achieve your end and yet the world would not know the product of your relentlessness. I'd go even further in saying these are the only pursuits worthy of relentlessness.
(I don't think this scenario is *common* - I'd say our current cultural default is to not have a life ordered towards one thing, but rather a more compartmentalized life where decisions are generally made piecemeal, so your main point still holds. And the few who order their life towards the pursuit of one thing generally pick something not worth the pursuit.)
I wouldn't disagree. Lots of niche things that are both legible and illegible to others and there's also definitely a bear discussion in here about being relentless on a domain that comes with prestige, notoriety etc and how selection into those work
I'm going to push back on "You can’t relate to Jordan or Napoleon or Trump’s mindset. If you could the world would know of the product of your relentlessness." (specifically, the last sentence)
That's true if you're relentlessness is something visible to the world.
It's probably still true even if it's for something intangible, like "become the world's foremost expert in XYZ."
It doesn't hold true for something hidden, like relentlessly pursuing being a great husband/dad, sacrificing all else towards that end. You could successfully achieve your end and yet the world would not know the product of your relentlessness. I'd go even further in saying these are the only pursuits worthy of relentlessness.
(I don't think this scenario is *common* - I'd say our current cultural default is to not have a life ordered towards one thing, but rather a more compartmentalized life where decisions are generally made piecemeal, so your main point still holds. And the few who order their life towards the pursuit of one thing generally pick something not worth the pursuit.)
I wouldn't disagree. Lots of niche things that are both legible and illegible to others and there's also definitely a bear discussion in here about being relentless on a domain that comes with prestige, notoriety etc and how selection into those work