Cerutty On Achieving Success, What It Takes

Cerutty believed in total commitment by those who desired athletic and what I will call worldly success. What you are about to read may sound extreme but it isn't if you really want what you say you do.


"There will be no social life for the dedicated athlete. His will be the singleness of purpose, the complete concentration on a goal that is usually only associated with a soldier in war time occupied in battle.
He will live a monk-like existence of his own choosing.
When the personality is given over to the job of doing something worthwhile there is no need or desire for anything else but the getting on with the job. The athlete lives his 'work' or ambition day and night. He is outside every other segment of life and being.
His conscious mind will never be free of the desire and determination. His mind will be permanently preoccupied with the means of achieving his ambition.
This is no fanaticism but it is obsession. It is good to be obsessed with worthy ideas, ambitions, hopes and desires."


So, that's why I haven't achieved the success I said I wanted.