The tosh that is 'All you can do is try your hardest...do your best.'

There is an entity which one calls the 'West' in which you are encouraged to 'do your best' and 'try your hardest'.

This sort of thinking, not evident in other cultures, is Protestant to its core and how tricked one feels to have been taken in by it.

For in the 'do your best' and 'try your hardest' Protestant model of aspiration, the underlying assumption is you can never achieve 'it', for 'it' lies somewhere far away in some far off, never to be seen  Elysian Fields.

This Protestant type of thinking has its roots in 'Plato's
Cave' - in that all we will ever achieve is a reflection but the 'real' thing is unobtainable.

Once you get an inkling of this kind of  'keep you in your place' tosh, it becomes easier to understand why Nietzsche despised Platonic type thinking.