You know the list – run a marathon, write a book, do a MBA, work at so and so, travel to France, start your own business and so forth. Should you make an effort to do that unending list of things that “they” claim will make you happy, successful, accomplished? Eric Karjaluoto, the writer of the article “Forget Self-Improvement,” argues very eloquently that perhaps you shouldn’t. Karjaluto makes a compelling argument for the already compelling idea of abandoning a life…
So what if you don’t speak Arabic? You have Google Chrome don’t you? So what if you can’t spell perfectly? Doesn’t spell check come standard? So what if you were born poor without a giant library full of encyclopedias? Wikipedia. Do you really have any valid excuses for failing to do more, go further, climb higher and press farther than your parents, and their parents? If so, what are they? If not, why don’t we? Here are some phenomenal things you…
If you don’t, you may want to look again because, trust me – it could have been much worse.
