Why Didn't Sisyphus Quit?

[Mark Kohut]

Yes, to Camus but I've also liked the wag who retorted:  "Well, at
least he builds his muscles".


On 1/19/18, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK, I got it now, it wasn't in Sapolsky's book, but as  a Stanford
> commencement speaker, in his closing remarks sending the new graduates out
> into the world. It was about making a difference. According to S, nothing
> is more impossible than an individual person making a real difference in
> the world, so that in why all of you are going out there and try.
>
> So, what Sisyphus  was trying to do was make a difference.
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 9:52 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> In "Behave" somewhere, neurologist endocrinologist superstar Robert
>> Sapolsky says something to the effect that the more impossible a thing is
>> the more we will pursue it.  It seem kind of wrong headed but . . . .
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 3:59 AM, L E Bryan <lebryan at sonic.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Maybe he was a perfectionist, trying to get it right.
>>>
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