Magic is a vanishing art
Magic is a vanishing art.
— Bumper Sticker
Snow pounding. Visibility nil.
Windshield is as far as I can see.
Treacherously slow,
Sometimes lost.
I’ve even slid off off the road a time or two.
But as the hours (and days) pass,
I slowly make progress.
As it is in snow, so it is in life.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
There is an inescapable setup time for all tasks, large or minuscule in scale. It is often the same for one as it is for a hundred. There is a psychological switching of gears that can require up to 45 minutes to resume a major task that has been interrupted.
— Timothy Ferris, 4-Hour Work Week
Of course, I interrupted the book I was reading to post and Tweet this.
Focus is hard.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
— Sir Francis Bacon
The compulsive quest for certainty is not the expression of genuine faith but is rooted in the need to conquer the unbearable doubt.