Sketch and Write
By Gaetan Pappalardo
“Rigor without pleasure is usually a losing proposition; it runs against human nature.”
—Thomas Newkirk
I credit the hours of diagraming sentences to the yellow sweat stains on my catholic boy Oxford. Uncomfortable and sweaty, I trudged through worksheet after worksheet under the iron fist of the nuns. Some students learn to write in this environment. I didn’t. However, it taught me discipline. Thirteen years of catholic school taught me to persevere through boredom, academic distraught and catholic guilt. And that discipline waited in my subconscious for a long time. It waited for a partner. It waited for love.
Tennis. Writing. Guitar. Teaching.
These “loves” came later in life. I loved them so much that I was willing to suffer in order to succeed (That’s called grit –– The new buzz word that teachers are supposed implant in kids. I know, right?). Discipline collided with love and the end result was/is success.
Here’s my formula–– Discipline + Love = Grit = Success Read more
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