Non-practice

You can’t get fooled again!

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I like this classic quote: Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. Very uplifting; it mostly refers to a specific situation – getting fooled by somebody else; but, in a broader sense, one can get “fooled” by life; it’s somehow life’s fault if it surprises me with something I’m not prepared for; but the second time, it’s only my responsibility. George BUSH knows this well:

Why should you read by a plan, by design, and not random?

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There are three ways in which you can read: Pleasure – “I like Science Fiction, I read SF books”; Random – “I’ll read everything; can I take it? OK, I’ll read it then”; Design – “In the next years, I’ll focus on reading only titles based on this criterion: …”; I like the latter one best; it lacks creativity, it may shape you into something you don’t want to become, but I consider it better than the two previous ones; I don’t think you can become good at something by chance; solution? Pick a criteria and stick to it. PS, 2018.08.03: Idea via Andrei Pleșu.