For those of you wanting to see the planned text of my presentation from my How to Be a Journalist presentation, it’s now up in the earlier blog post. This post has links to the Word and Powerpoint versions.
Susie and I are suffering from some horrid sickness. It struck Sunday morning, and though we spent half the weekend in bed, with one short trip out to buy a gallon of OJ, we’re just as sick today.
I was back in Calgary this weekend, and while there I saw “Famous Puppet Death Scenes,” a play written and performed by my old high school friend Judd Palmer and the rest of the Old Trout troupe of puppeteers.
“I find myself thinking of a checklist Wozniak wrote a few years ago describing how to become a genius. His advice was straightforward yet strangely terrible: You must clarify your goals, gain knowledge through spaced repetition, preserve health, work steadily, minimize stress, refuse interruption, and never resist sleep when tired. This should lead to radically improved intelligence and creativity. The only cost: turning your back on every convention of social life.”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.”
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