Comments on: who says you can’t have it all?

By: bukus

bukus — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:13:26 +0000

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By: Efrain Guffy

Efrain Guffy — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:02:59 +0000

That’s a genuinely delicious cause theme , I need have ascertained that a couple of ages past. who cares, that’s what you are right here for yes?

By: Laurence Mcquitty

Laurence Mcquitty — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:48:44 +0000

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By: Thaddus

Thaddus — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:48:04 +0000

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

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By: Laura - The Journal of Cultural Conversation

Laura - The Journal of Cultural Conversation — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:06:59 +0000

Definitely agree — particularly as a person who has worked in online advertising / marketing for 5 years and have just started as a blogger. We all have a way to be just a little more exceptional — just takes a little more realism — and being yourself, whether you’re an individual or a brand.

By: Kye Swenson

Kye Swenson — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:08:59 +0000

It’s funny that you mention this, because I was just at a Web 2.0 conference that talked about the “have it all” attitude. All four of the speakers mentioned the widespread change of companies changing their websites to be more realistic. No more pictures of the bright-smiling, picturesque employee on the homepage to try and reel you into the rest of the website. Instead, companies are putting pictures of their own employees on the site, posting interviews and podcasts with CEO’s, and posting non-sketched tutorials with regular employees and engineers. It’s good to see a change like this!

By: Alice Bachini-Smith

Alice Bachini-Smith — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:08:15 +0000

Having it all was one of the worst ideas inflicted on my generation, I think. A whole generation of women especially grew up feeling like failures for either not being around all day for their kids, or for not having kids, or for not having careers because they were focusing on kids. (Same basic choices as men, but the expression started with feminism.)
What some people manage is “having it all” in series, or with tons and tons of help & support. Late launch careers are sometimes enormous success stories, and people sometimes find love later in life too. Not everyone, just very exceptional people. But I’d like my kids to aspire to exceptional goals while balancing them with realism and remembering that everything we achieve is really a gift from God to be thankful for.

By: Shaun

Shaun — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:50:00 +0000

Is there no way to post these great articles onto facebook or others?

By: Paige

Paige — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:21:17 +0000

I don’t want “everything”; just a few things and I reserve the right to name them at a latter date.
Sonny Bono was fairly good at the 10 year or so plan; except he chose the wrong sport
And don’t forget the Governator; wonder if he will start a band in a couple of years

By: John

John — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:07:49 +0000

I watched Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s TED talk on flow a few days ago. Achieving flow requires skill, knowledge and experience. You can do it only when the activity (playing the piano, telling a story, designing an experiment, …) becomes automatic, instinctive. Otherwise your thinking so much about the basic mechanics, process, rules, etc. that you can’t get into a flow state.
Mihaly reckons that for anything significant (music, design, art, science, sport, …) this takes 10 years. So you can probably ‘have’ three or four things in a lifetime if you put in the effort.
For me this means that I can design, sing and (when I was still young enough) play rugby. May have enough time left to get there with drawing. In everything else I’ll be forever ‘intermediate’.

By: Roland

Roland — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:26:39 +0000

Well said, Hugh. I’ve realised/believed this for years but the idea of sacrifice and success going hand in hand doesn’t seem popular.
Perhaps this is because it tends to shatter the illusions and dreams that sustain mediocrity.

By: Victoria

Victoria — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:09:48 +0000

One of the more entertaining Aussie beer ads of recent times, by Droga5 Sydney, (http://www.bestadsontv.com/files/movies/2009/Jul/22872_VB0074TWO_sml.mov), shows ‘guys punching above their weight’. That’s about as aspirational as it gets. The slogan, ‘VB, the drinking beer’, is exceptionally unexceptional and as unpretentious as VB drinkers. Thank God the days of ‘having it all’ are over.

By: hugh macleod

hugh macleod — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:32:29 +0000

Dave, you could also say that Brian May put his academic interests on hold for 20 years in order to play in a band