Of Moral and Challenge

There are many people in the world who take pleasure in doing something familiar - not exactly challenging and even mundane to them, that keeps them busy and seemingly pleasing the “business as usual” ease and a temperament of a traditionalist.

Traditionalists are some 70% of humans, give or take a little (don’t take my word for it).

Culture plays a little role but temperament, according to Carl Jung, is something we are born with and tend to balance out during our life span.

I am not a traditionalist.

If I need to do something mundane, I will do it out of sheer discipline, taking my will power into overdrive, while looking for the next challenge, in the doing or outside of it. Challenges and the will to learn something worthwhile is what drives me.

I grew up in a kibbutz in the 70’s and the 80’s and formed myself around the topic of work in such a way that I already got my mundane tasks of “wax on, wax off” early in life and I know the feeling (boring, unless you find something to challenge yourself with - taking up the speed, aiming for performance etc), the purpose (discipline yourself, being practically a disciple) and the necessity in it, being moving up the responsibility ladder, and ticking boxes (i.e. getting things done).

I painted, tended animals, worked in a tomato greenhouse, plant nursery, plastic tube factory, can factory, and most of all - in agriculture, i.e. field crops and the technical workshop, mostly with service of agricultural machinery but also building steel constructions för various areas, serving/repairing them, and all things steel works.

This was my Square One, and I endured it, even enjoyed it sometimes, but mostly I think I can even pride myself on having gone through that kind of "grooming". This has given me the perseverence and discipline, and the will to take bigger challenges.