THE GOBLIN NEWSLETTER 47

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

- James Garfield

One of the great things about being at Ground Zero is that I can bring attention to primal things that need to be focused on. For those of us that didn’t grow up at Ground Zero it seems overly basic & boring, but these things need to be done. One of the things that I keep hearing is people saying that hard work isn’t necessary or that work is below them. This is the toxic excuse for socialism that has been spread around deliberately. This line of thinking turns you into a largely useless person, not capable of bringing anything new into the world & being prone to people that want to use whatever small amount they can get out of you. This world just needs to be worked, that’s how anything worthwhile gets done. One of the things that my kids like to bring up when I’m trying to get them to work harder is that I worked myself into a stroke. Overwork, working sixteen hour days, not taking a meaningful break ever undoubtedly contributed to that, but also I’ve had more stuff that I back-burnered than I can actually complete in this lifetime. I owe that to my work ethic. I have the same work ethic as before, just now I take breaks, I keep the sabbath & don’t work after dinner. There are so many ways that I take care of myself now, good diet, exercise, meditation, no alcohol or caffeine, yoga, talk-therapy, sleep, the whole deal. Training, praying, taking my vitamins. So those are all ways of tempering myself for work, so that I am ready to do the work & the work doesn’t possess me like some poor bastard. But, I’d be lying to you if I didn’t give massive emphasis on hard work to accomplish anything meaningful in this life.