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Stanisław Jerzy Lec: A Life of Extraordinary Resilience
Stanisław Jerzy Lec According to Clifton Fadiman's introduction to Lec's book Unkempt Thoughts (Myśli nieuczesane): "Lec has led the strange (to us), hunted, haunted life of thousands of Central European intellectuals, their experience inexorably shaped by war and revolution. At the outbreak of the war he was imprisoned in a German concentration camp. There he stayed until July 1943 when the camp was liquidated by mass executions. Escaping in a German uniform, he succeeded in...
Ray Bradbury on Work and Creativity
Illustration of Ray Bradbury By Liftarn (Traced from Image: Ray Douglas Bradbury.jpg) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons " "Why is it that in a society with a Puritan heritage, we have such completely ambivalent feelings about Work? We feel guilty, do we not, if not busy? But we feel somewhat soiled, on the other hand, if we sweat overmuch? I can only suggest that we often indulge in made work, in false business, to keep...
The Magic of Limitations
How limitations can become the unexpected springboard for creativity and innovation " If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago. - Elon Musk I learned an important lesson...
Joseph Heller’s Profound Wisdom: The Meaning of “Enough”
A timeless lesson on success, wealth, and contentment Heller's masterpiece, first published in 1961 Joseph Heller wrote the massive bestseller, Catch-22 about World War II. I recommend anyone read the book, but that's not what this story is about. Later in his life, Heller went to a party in the Hamptons. The gathering was filled mostly with young hedge fund managers and Wall Street professionals. While he was at the party, someone came up to...