The Moral Vision
Motion and Direction
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resources and then set off in the right direction, if,
sooner or later, we are to reach our destination.
Often people launch themselves on careers,
plunging headlong into them, without giving due
thought to their actual capacities and to whether
they have any real potential which can be
developed. At times they are led astray by trivial
considerations,
ill-founded
opinions
and
overwhelming emotions, and rush heedlessly into
whatever first comes their way. When the result is
not what they had anticipated, they fall to
complaining against others, lamenting their losses
and failures and claiming that it was due to the
prejudices of others that they had had to suffer
frustrations and that their careers had come to
naught. Had they given more profound thought to
the matter, they would have realised that the fault
lay in their own ill-judged planning or even total
aimlessness. Had they started out in the right
direction, others would not then have had the
opportunity to place obstacles in their path and turn
their successes into failures.
