A couple of quotations have often risen to the surface in past weeks ...I've always distinguished between the notion of doing something well that brings various monetary and notoriety rewards ... and doing something you naturally enjoy that brings more intrinsic rewards (and can also bring more traditional "fame & fortune" benefits). I keep getting the Starbucks coffee cup 'The Way I See It #26" and couldn't have said this better myself:
Failure's hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you're successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever. (Po Bronson)
And my famously-poor memory for facts and logistical details like dates, names, appointment times and locations, directions, etc. is something I now laugh at and try to embrace (I've been like this all my life). I am able to retain complex concepts and theories, just not the specific facts and figures of everyday life ... and I loved this perspective:
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
