Thursday, September 27, 2012

Tuesdays with Ian - Okay fine it's Thursday as well... but Roland really shouldn't have posted before me...

Hello everyone.

Now I know what you're thinking.  You're thinking "My life has been hopelessly directionless for the past two days without my weekly dose of sage Tuesday advice!"  All I can say to that is, "that's really too bad.  I was busy."

I do, however, apologize for my egregious neglect of blogging responsibility.  Here's why I was unable to write my blog post on Tuesday: I was in the proverbial zone, as it were. 5 and a half hours of molecular biology study and 2 hours of economics and I had lost all conception that there was a world outside of the confines of my academically concentrated state.

Someone once asked me (It was Kassie Hymas at my apartment last night) "why are people always in such a hurry?"... I submit that, as human beings, all of our achievement and accomplishments are merely the result of how we apply the only two resources everyone's disposal: time and effort.  The reason I bring this up is because of how absolutely I have focused my energy this week on studying.  When you really think about it, each one of us has 24 hours in each day in which to use our energy on a variety of different tasks.  Some people always seem to have a great deal of time whereas others seem always pressed for it.  But the truth is, we all have 24 hours in a day.  The question then becomes not of availability of time but of sequence and order of priorities.  People will always make time for the things you consider important.  For some people, computer games are very important.  To others, mastery of a musical instrument consumes most of their time and effort.  "Youtube isn't going to watch itself!" others exclaim.

Why are people in such a hurry?  Because getting from place to place is such an inefficient use of time!

In conclusion, this week's advice:  Run.  Don't walk.  Everywhere.


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