Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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The Importance of Gumption
The fuel that really drives this process of creating something of quality is what he calls gumption. It's a fuel that can take us to do all sorts of different things. If you haven't got it, there is no way that the motorcycle can be fixed. But if you do have it and you know how to keep it, there's no way in the world the motorcycle can keep itself from getting fixed. The thing that must be monitored at all times and preserved before anything else in the motorcycle maintenance is gumption. And he says that actually, gumption is probably the first and foremost, the most important tool of this whole process.
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