Summary Of What I Learned Fly Fishing With Charlie By Rodd Wagner

I found an interesting article about motivation called Praise and Trout: What I Learned Fly-Fishing with Charlie by Rodd Wagner. In this article Rodd discusses the motivation it takes to persist in a task until success, even when the outcome is frequently failure. It compares human motivation to learning to fly-fish. He discusses the dedication, patience, and persistence that is required in the task to reach the eventual fruitful (or fishful) outcome. The article discourses on how success is its own “natural high” and released dopamine into our brains. This good feeling we get reinforces our behavior that lead to our success, and our drive, grit, and determination that got us there. Rodd has a line in the article that says “what gets recognized,