"But, by putting achievement at the centre of things, the other people we are talking about don't fare well.
But for the most part, it is the simple achievement of getting the thing done, rather than any subsequent publishing success, or even readership, that drives the writers on.
Completing tasks brought a sense of achievement: "Things appear brighter, increases self-esteem, I really don't 'ave any any self-respect, you know, at the moment I don't 'ave a great deal of er you know, if I finish this [training] course then I'll probably like give myself a bit of a boost".
We can look at Ada and recognize that our own challenges are similar to hers, and her achievements are the sorts of things that we strive towards".
Recent news that David Beckham is about to enter the thespian arena – via a cameo as a "grumpy knight" in Guy Ritchie's forthcoming King Arthur movie – fills one with particular trepidation, given the England hero's global celebrity and distinct lack of achievement in things that don't involve kicking a ball.
She's lost interest in the things that used to bring her a sense of achievement -- things she used to find enjoyable (cooking dinner for her family, painting, gardening and reading).
But Mr. Traore wants to move beyond these achievements to accomplish the kinds of things for which there are no medals.
That message is finally filtering through to Britain's swimmers, who won a record number of medals at the European Championships last August - an achievement Sweetenham suggests is a harbinger of things to come.
Before the great Bitcoin crash of 2014, Gogulski and his cohort were already speaking about the currency as somehow passé – they saw Bitcoin less as a practical achievement than as a theoretical shape of things to come.
Even the most mundane and functional items can be a source of strange comfort, a talisman of achievement, a thing to cling to when life gets you down.
