Three sentences to write on a stickie and tape to your desk/mirror/computer.
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I was going to call this piece “The three most important people for my career change.” But then I couldn’t remember the name of one of them, and one of them I haven’t talked to in more than 10 years. Thankfully, the third is right here. I didn’t want to try to remember the person whose name I’ve forgotten, so I thought that I’d use something clever for a title, like “three pearls of wisdom.”. It seemed like there would be a neat connection between a grain of sand as irritant = beautiful, valuable pearl, on the one hand, and challenging circumstances = trenchant advice, on the other hand. But then as I was trying to connect the dots in my mind, it felt too much like one of those story problems from h.s. math with trains going in different directions at different speeds, and you have to determine the name of the conductor who boarded a train in Yankton, South Dakota. Or something. And then I read that “pearls of wisdom” is considered a “terrible cliché”. Yuk. So, I’m reduced to “three sentences to write on a stickie and tape to your desk/mirror/computer so you can read them every day.” But it’s good stuff, I promise.
Three sentences to write on a stickie and tape to your desk/mirror/computer.
Three sentences to write on a stickie and…
Three sentences to write on a stickie and tape to your desk/mirror/computer.
I was going to call this piece “The three most important people for my career change.” But then I couldn’t remember the name of one of them, and one of them I haven’t talked to in more than 10 years. Thankfully, the third is right here. I didn’t want to try to remember the person whose name I’ve forgotten, so I thought that I’d use something clever for a title, like “three pearls of wisdom.”. It seemed like there would be a neat connection between a grain of sand as irritant = beautiful, valuable pearl, on the one hand, and challenging circumstances = trenchant advice, on the other hand. But then as I was trying to connect the dots in my mind, it felt too much like one of those story problems from h.s. math with trains going in different directions at different speeds, and you have to determine the name of the conductor who boarded a train in Yankton, South Dakota. Or something. And then I read that “pearls of wisdom” is considered a “terrible cliché”. Yuk. So, I’m reduced to “three sentences to write on a stickie and tape to your desk/mirror/computer so you can read them every day.” But it’s good stuff, I promise.