Did you fall into the Whiner-trap?

Imagine this:

(The story is from a movie, so bear with me)

3 friends are out on a quest.

Their biggest enemy has hidden 5 artifacts somewhere in the world that they need to find and destroy.

And quick.

But there are 2 problems: they don’t know where to find them. And they don’t know how to destroy them.

(Hint: stomping on it or throw it in the wall won’t do the work)

They find the first one, not by accident, but let’s say they did get some help.

Now…

They have to destroy it.

They spend days. Thinking, reading, walking around, thinking, barely talking. They need to find a way to crack it.

It seems hopeless.

Let’s pause here for a second.

Because here something happens: one of the 3 gets frustrated. He figured they would have gotten further by now. He thinks this quest is becoming too difficult. He can’t see the way out.

He leaves the other 2.

He leaves his friends to make it on their own.

You might think, “what a scumbag”. But there's a lot of people like him out there.

Whiners.

People running the other way when shit hits the fan. Or by the way, the shit doesn’t even have to hit the fan. They get the feeling that, hey, this is more difficult than I thought. No one can tell me exactly what to do.

I better leave.

Take work as an example.

If you have a job with any degree of uncertainty, this will happen all the time. You have to figure something out and you don’t have the answer.

Or when your boss taps you on the shoulder and asks you to redo what you’ve just put your heart into.

Or when you don’t get that raise.

Or when someone snaps the position you wanted.

Are you the whiner?

A lot of people are.

(The story is from Harry Potter and the deathly hallows. Part one. Thanks for inspiration J.K.)

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