Every bitcoiner ought to read Teddy Roosevelt's "Strenuous Life" speech, if for no other reason than paragraph [3] about effort. Essentially, bitcoin proof-of-work conceptually.
[3] We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.