Funny enough...

Did you read this week's Monday Morning Memo? One of the best things I've done is subscribed to it. Roy H. Williams is brilliant, and I would recommend reading everything he's written.

John Steinbeck:
"When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping. The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage. In other words, I don't improve; in further words, once a bum always a bum. I fear the disease is incurable. I set this matter down not to instruct others but to inform myself."


Comment by Roy H. Williams:
...In one of his Paradigm videos, Joel Barker explains how Pioneers differ from Settlers. According to Joel, Pioneers are they who plunge ahead into uncharted wilderness and blaze trails for the more cautious settlers to follow. Wisely waiting in the security of town, the Settlers watch from a distance until the destination is reached, the enemies are subdued, and the beckoning trail sparkles westward in the morning light. The sensible Settlers raise cupped hands to their mouths and call down the trail, "Is it safe out there?" And the Pioneers call back, "Yes! It's wonderful. Come on."

Then the Settlers in their canvas-covered wagons follow the trail cut through the wilderness by the Pioneers.

There is much wisdom in being a Settler. A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

Let me tell you plainly, friend, the money is in being a Settler.

But the fun is in being a Pioneer...


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Awake on a normal day wishing it weren't so normal,
-Broderick