After Town Of John Day, OR =>
….Typical View of East Central Oregon’s Level Lowland Valleys.
……Gumption Traps Lecture Continues.

….“If you know enough mechanics to think of them as a group, and your observations coincide with mine, I think you’ll agree that mechanics tend to be rather modest and quiet. There are exceptions, but generally if they’re not quiet and modest at first, the work seems to make them that way. And skeptical. Attentive, but skeptical, But not egoistic. There’s no way to bullshit your way into looking good on a mechanical repair job, except with someone who doesn’t know what you’re doing. .. . . . I was going to say that the machine doesn’t respond to your personality, but it does respond to your personality. It’s just that the personality that it responds to is your real personality, the one that genuinely feels and reasons and acts, rather than any false, blown-up personality images your ego may conjure up. These false images are deflated so rapidly and completely you’re bound to be very discouraged very soon if you’ve derived your gumption from ego rather than Quality. “ [The Narrator then covers the many] “internal gumption traps …. that block affective understanding, [together] called "value traps"“
..He covers:
….“Ego“,
….“Anxiety“,
….“Boredom“, and
….“Impatience.“

Five miles West of Mount Vernon, OR.

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