Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.- G.K. Chesterton
Monday, August 22, 2011
The Importance of Being Educated
Sunday, August 7, 2011
How to Get Important Things Done
"It is a profoundly erroneous truism that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing," the philosopher A.N. Whitehead explained back in 1911. "The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them."
Indeed many great performers aren't even consciously aware that's what they've done. They've built their rituals intuitively.
Over the past decade, I've built a series of rituals into my everyday life, in order to assure that I get to the things that are most important to me — and that I don't get derailed by the endlessly alluring trivia of everyday life.
Owning Business May Prevent Work Life Balance
Never own your own business - always work for someone else - this is the only way I know to have a life that isn't all about work.
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