The kind of work that should be the main part of life is the kind of work you would want to do if you weren't being paid for it. It's work that comes out of your own internal needs, interests and concerns.
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The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined.
That's your opportunity--to approach your work in a way that generates unique learning and interactions that are worth sharing.
It seems that the more we learn about our work, the easier and the more interesting it becomes to us. Tasks that used to be tedious now make sense, and we see how they're related to other elements of our jobs. Plus, they're easier to take care of now, so they don't bother us nearly as much when we need to do them. When we know more about our work and its ramifications, we can see the connections between what we do and the effects that those things have on other people.
School is learning things you don't want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn't know, while working toward a future you don't know will ever come.
In the grave, there is neither learning nor working. Learn while you can, work while you can.
There is a great fulfillment when you commit your life to lifelong learning.
File Under General Wisdom: You want to know the difference between a master and a beginner?The master has failed more times than the beginner has tried.
Adams has done a bit of everything, from radio to television to designing computer games. Not all of them worked out. __hese are life__ little learning experiences,_ he said. __ou know what a learning experience is? A learning experience is one of those things that says, __ou know that thing you just did? Don__ do that._ __t the end of all this being-determined-to-be-a-jack-of-all-trades, I think I__ better off just sitting down and putting a hundred thousand words in a cunning order._ Adams writes __lowly and painfully._ __eople assume you sit in a room, looking pensive and writing great thoughts,_ he said. __ut you mostly sit in a room looking panic-stricken and hoping they haven__ put a guard on the door yet.
it's always good to know that you have been the best even though deep inside you know you will never be better than that.
Don´t let your work define you. But let you define what works for you to defy and refine you even more.
When you dread getting up in the morning to go somewhere, you are going to the wrong place.
If you give your work life, your work will give you life. Vies-versa
Divine miracle is at work in my life.
Work passionately.
My life is ruled by four W__: my writing, my work, my wife, and my whisky. Not necessarily in that order.
The only pride of her workday was not that it had been lived, but that it had been survived. It was wrong, she thought, it was viciously wrong that one should ever be forced to say that about any hour of one's life.
The ultimate way to change something is to change what is behind that something. Change what is behind something and something will change!