What constitutes a good life?
Thoughts on the good life on what would have been my father’s 100th birthday.
Thoughts on the good life on what would have been my father’s 100th birthday.
Each month I have a goal to read five books. Here are the books I read in November 2024.
Lift one another up in these difficult times. Knowing what we don’t know can help.
I’ll tell you all about the downsides of procrastination later. When I get around to it. Seriously, indecisiveness can be bad. Indecisiveness can also lead to better choices and better results. To discern which it is, we must understand why we may be waiting to make a decision. If you find yourself chronically putting off difficult tasks you know you should tackle, then you’ll find this path leads to the loss of time, the loss of respect of co-workers and family, and it can cost you in results. Perhaps when you are in a situation where you don’t enjoy or admire your work, you have to force yourself to push forward. When that happens, Paul Graham suggests, “the results are distinctly inferior.” However, if you are doing work you enjoy and still worry that you are indecisive, Graham and others see us making better choices with more creative outcomes by waiting for a more deliberate answer. Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin says, “You call it procrastination, I call it thinking.” “There are three variants of procrastination, depending …