On 3/11/2011 8:52 AM, AlunFoto wrote:
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
.
Jack
--- On Sun, 3/13/11, Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: The myth of persistence
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net
Date: Sunday, March 13, 2011, 7:57 AM
On 3/11/2011 8:52 AM, AlunFoto
wrote:
Interesting essay
Mike often shoots himself in the foot. I'm surprised he has a foot
left, (or is that left foot...)
On 3/11/2011 1:52 AM, AlunFoto wrote:
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
2011/3/13 Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com:
On 3/11/2011 8:52 AM, AlunFoto wrote:
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
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
- Original Message -
From: Jack Davis jdavi...@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: The myth of persistence
IOW, in photography, one is, safe to say, striving to satisfy their own
criteria as to what qualifies as good. The sense
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 7:29 PM, AlunFoto alunf...@gmail.com wrote:
With that kind of argumentation, I'd say you stopped just short of
repeating my point. :-)
Jostein
Fortunately I was quoting the original (a.k.a. you) therefore the
phone wasn't entirely broken.
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Boris
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PDML
Well now I _have_ to read it..
I could have written the paragraph Mike wrote that is quoted here.. so sorry
he shot himself in the foot in that way
ann
AlunFoto wrote:
Interesting essay.
On one hand he advocates not to persist at something you're not good
at, in order to spend time doing
On 11/03/2011 12:52 AM, AlunFoto wrote:
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
From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of
William Robb
How do you figure that? He used one particular measure when a measure
was specified, but he also made mention of the majority of his snow
pictures doing nothing for him. The argument could just as easily be
2011/3/11 William Robb anotherdrunken...@gmail.com:
Shoots his own logic in the foot, in my opinion.
How do you figure that? He used one particular measure when a measure was
specified, but he also made mention of the majority of his snow pictures
doing nothing for him. The argument could
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
Mike Johnston on not feeling obligated to shoot (or try) *everything* ...
http://goo.gl/PhVNd
-bmw
Just what I needed. This time of year my drive home from work is directly into
the setting sun, the graphic winter trees and enchanted power station chimneys
with sun-colored vapor coming out
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
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