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KNOW THYSELF: Settle on a job and career that you genuinely love and can be happy in.
These personality tests are a first step:
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The Masters
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an
invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a
sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the
dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve
equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a
computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
Specialization is for insects.
- Robert A. Heinlein, in Time Enough for Love
Do you know about The Calf's Path of the mind?
"Harvey, Hunt, and Schroder (1961) found four types of people: (1) rule abiding, tell-me-what-to-do types (30%), (2) rebellious, don't-tell-me-what-to-do types (15%), (3) cautious, what-do-you-think-I-should-do types (20%), and (4) self-directed, I'll-get-enough-information-and-decide-for-myself-what-to-do-types (5-7%). It's shocking that so few fall in the last category (especially since most of us think of ourselves as independent). The more recent data (cited in introduction) provides some hope that we are gradually learning to think for ourselves."
from Dependency and Conformity, Chapter 8, HOW DEPENDENT ARE WE? WHAT MAKES US SO DEPENDENT
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"Nothing could be more poignant than the story of the past 6,000 years, of our ancestors struggling through their darkness and ignorance to bring us to where we are--to a generation transfixed by change."
- David Brin
Science-fiction author David Brin says we must be willing to give up some of our privacy in return for real freedom.
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