Of all the skills that are most useful to live a good life, I think the ability to consistently take the many lemons life throws at us, figure out how we can make and sell the lemonade with what we have available around us, and do so with unending enthusiasm is the most useful skill of them all.
You don’t always get good lemons and you definitely don’t have all the tools you need. But that’s also when we realize that being constructive and enthusiastic are worth at least 25 IQ points.
