12/18/2014
How to Avoid Work: A 1949 Guide to Doing What You Love.
65 years later, this is more applicable than ever:
"Actually, there is only one way in this world to achieve true happiness, and that is to express yourself with all your skill and enthusiasm in a career that appeals to you more than any other. In such a career, you feel a sense of purpose, a sense of achievement. You feel you are making a contribution. It is not work."
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"When we consider that each of us has only one life to live, isn’t it rather tragic to find men and women, with brains capable of comprehending the stars and the planets, talking about the weather; men and women, with hands capable of creating works of art, using those hands only for routine tasks; men and women, capable of independent thought, using their minds as a bowling-alley for popular ideas; men and women, capable of greatness, wallowing in mediocrity; men and women, capable of self-expression, slowly dying a mental death while they babble the confused monotone of the mob?"
http://www.brainpickings.org/2012/12/14/how-to-avoid-work/
"Life really begins when you have discovered that you can do anything you want." "There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does no