“Live large, I say. Don’t zip through the retirement money (just in case), but maybe stop obsessing so much about the little things.”
All in Miscellany
Mastery as an Attainable Concept
“Maybe what matters most is not the seemingly-ultimate prize of reaching the top. True masters learn that the actions and results from each separate day are what matter.”
Luck and the Liberal Arts
“…given a three year opportunity to teach freshman classes cryptically titled “Thought and Writing.” …I discovered something chilling: knowing how to really think was not a skill that had, so far, been nurtured in most of my students.”
Happy. New. Year!
“It’s not the prevailing winds of your life that dictate the direction you go, but how you set your sails. Somehow, somewhere along the way, I learned this.”