Interesting essay. On one hand he advocates not to persist at something you're not good at, in order to spend time doing things that brings you more sense of achiement. On the other hand, all his examples revolve around monetary reward as the sole gauge of achievement.
Shoots his own logic in the foot, in my opinion. Jostein 2011/3/11 Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com>: > Mike Johnston on not feeling obligated to shoot (or try) *everything* ... > > "Ever since then, I've been suspicious of the idea of persistence. It's a > great, grand old American myth, of course: we're always telling ourselves > that persistence and perseverence are crucial to success. But many > people—including a few I could name—persist at failure. They keep trying, > all right. But they keep trying to do things they already should have > learned they're no good at." > > http://goo.gl/PhVNd > > One of Mike's best essays. He also admits to actually loving a cat once, and > taking a couple of cat pix. > > -bmw > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
