Guts and Guts and Guts

nishio: I don’t have fighting spirit or guts. twitter.com/plum_very/stat…

nishio: “Motivation ebbs and flows…”, so I’m trying to live my life “advancing as much as possible during a moment of heightened tension. I feel like I’m doing that.

nishio: you’re right up to “in a moment”, but I don’t think it’s necessarily “going as much as possible”. Tend to target things that can be managed in the blink of an eye Instantaneous and Sustained Action.

nishio: In 2007, you wrote in your diary, “I tried to imitate someone who writes steadily, but it doesn’t work, this is a failure to imitate someone who has never run a full marathon and is used to running. I should write in a more savage way instead. - I can’t write steadily.

nishio: I forgot to mention that when I heard “spirit and guts” I thought of “hurdler” from “Ten Faces of Innovation”

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