To say that you will achieve anything worth achieving is to arrogantly imply that you believe yourself better than those around you who accept their exempting limitations. Thus it is necessary to say that you are ‘trying’, as a clear message that you understand that you won’t actually succeed. The danger is of then forgetting not to merely ‘try’.
To say that you will achieve anything worth achieving is to arrogantly imply that you believe yourself better than those around you who accept their exempting limitations. Thus it is necessary to say that you are ‘trying’, as a clear message that you understand that you won’t actually succeed. The danger is of then forgetting not to merely ‘try’.