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4 Responses to “what people say”

1. Søren Holmberg says:

   November 22, 2009 at 8:02 AM

   For every per­son drea­ming to earn a million there are a million drea­ming to win one.

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2. Ross says:

   December 14, 2009 at 2:07 AM

   Another cube gre­nade crea­ted. Thanks for sha­ring Hugh.

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3. Bruce Lynn says:

   December 26, 2009 at 9:14 AM

   Inte­res­ting con­cept this thing called ‘hard work’ (or even ‘wor­king your ass off’). It is sort of the obli­ga­tory ingre­dient to rattle off whe­ne­ver a suc­cess story is telling their tale. And yet, it is full of para­do­xes. ‘Suc­cess’ may require ‘hard work’, but ‘hard work’ is cer­tainly no sure fire path to ‘suc­cess’. Also, when it coo­mes to things that one is most pas­sio­nate, these seem like the least ‘work’ and the least ‘hard’ no mat­ter how much energy and time is expen­ded. Think of an all night ses­sion of roman­tic frenzy. On the other hand, a few minu­tes of mind-numbing bore­dom or ina­nity can be tor­ture worse than weeks sla­ving on the chain gang.

   I guess ‘hard work’ is defi­ned by carr­ying on even though you are deple­ted. Your time in your sche­dule and your calo­ries in your veins is used up…and yet you carry on. ‘Carr­ying on beyond deple­tion’ is my defin­tion of the ‘good’ form of ‘hard work’. Maybe when it comes to inane and insane work cha­rac­te­ris­tic of cor­po­rate life the ‘deple­tion’ just hits your quic­ker des­pite the time and energy expended.

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4. Arp Laszlo says:

   May 10, 2010 at 1:49 PM

   This is com­ple­tely true, and appli­ca­ble to more than just money. Lots of peo­ple say ‘I want to spend more time with my family’ but never do anything about it, for example.

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