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the quiet engine that turns talent into legend and excuses into dust.
means the deliberate use of physical or mental energy to accomplish something, especially when it doesn't come easily.
from From Old French 'effort,' built on the verb 'esforcier' — to force oneself, to exert strength. That traces back through Vulgar Latin to the Latin 'fortis,' meaning strong (the same root that gives us 'fort,' 'force,' and 'fortitude'). So at its heart, effort is literally the act of pushing yourself toward strength.
- brain cost
- Thinking hard literally burns measurable glucose
- effort paradox
- Things we struggle for we value more
- physics root
- From Latin fortis, meaning strong
- diminishing returns
- Last 20% of polish takes 80% of work
everest summit push — climbers spend months acclimatizing and risk their lives on an 8,849m mountain
manhattan project — 130,000 workers across 30 sites expended years to build the first atomic bomb by 1945
apollo 11 mission — 400,000 people worked for a decade to land humans on the moon in 1969