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A friend of mine Stamatis, during my university years in Heraklion, Crete, was going to the bus station a very rainy day. The moment he was arriving, he saw his bus just leaving the station. So, he started running in order to catch it in the next street lights, which were red. He made it, and since the bus was stopped, he started knocking on the door and shouting "please open!" (remember that there was a heavy rain at that moment). But the driver replied "I cannot!". Then Stamatis, with a very dramatic style which is very difficult to express in writing, shouted "Please try!".

(he didn't open)

This is just to remind myself that he believes that everything is a matter of effort :-) After vacations I need a lot of it to get back to my normal rhythms of working ...

I really believe effort is a very important concept and it is closely related to fear and insecurity (I think). Many people are afraid to try because then they will not have any excuse for not succeeding. On the other hand, those that try and succeed forget their effort and think falsely that they are somehow "gifted", "superior", more clever. The amount of effort (given a result) "reveals" somehow our "given" capabilities and people feel very insecure about them ... of course this is not the only dimension in this complicated issue ... but I think it is one ...

My climbing on mountain olympos (my first stop this summer in Greece) was a perfect opportunity to take "effort" photos but didn't think at all about this ... these are the only ones I took by chance ...

effort

exhausted

happy

Next time ... olympos is so rewarding ... it worths the effort 100% ... it is not a coincidence that it was the mountain where greek gods chose to live :-)