[npsimons]

> I think interesting take on the same idea I saw lately was "Every Dead Body on Mt. Everest Was Once a Highly Motivated Person". It seems not that new but still.

I mean, everyone dies. Not that I'm elevating Mt. Everest climbers, but at least they're aspiring for something.

Now, if the message you're trying to get across is it takes more than motivation, and life is rife with failure, that I can get behind. But "don't try, there's no point" is the laziest, most self-serving twaddle ever to be uttered (and no, it's not Nihilism either).

[ozim]

It is not “don’t try there is no point”.

It is: don’t use Napoleon, Mozart, Jobs, Musk someone who climbed Mt Everest in your silly article about motivation because it will backfire.

Someone being internally motivated by Napoleon or Jobs or someone who climbed Mt Everest is OK that is their own personal motivation.