Discipline Is Superior To Motivation
So a few days ago someone on the r/lawschool section of Reddit asked about how to keep up their motivation. Being Reddit, most of the responses were snarky jokes. But the person seemed to be seeking genuine advice, so I gave some: Be disciplined, not motivated. The...
“There are some people who I would wish to offend.”
So said a former chairman of the BBC. I recently heard the phrase repeated by Monty Python co-founder John Cleese. If for some reason you don’t know who or what Monty Python is, they were a surreal humor group from which almost all humor in modern media is a...
Just Another Day
Today is the first Tuesday of 2016. By being a Tuesday, it doesn’t have the je ne sais quoi of a Monday. You can’t blame things on “a case of the Tuesdays.” No one says that. People dread Mondays. Tuesdays just sort of exist. Tuesdays drag...
Perfection Is An Illusion, There Is Only Process
There was a post awhile ago over at Moneywatch recently entitled “Perfectionism is a Disease.” It offers three tips to ward off Perfectionism: 1. Allow yourself to be wrong in front of others. We learn by making mistakes. The only way we understand...
The Illusion Of Control
Yesterday my son had surgery. A tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy (TNA in medical jargon). A fairly simple procedure in the realm of surgeries. I had mine taken out when I was around 8 and vaguely remember it as not being that bad of an experience. I think I got some...LawyerSmack
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