6/28/09

Does what you do determine how you feel?

Historically, recessions have been a time when new companies


like Microsoft, get born


and good companies separate themselves from their competition


 


 It makes sense


 


If failing to plan is planning to fail


should the standard of living and quality of life of those who plan


be higher than those that don’t?


 


When times are tight, people look for new


less expensive ways to do old things


 


 Necessity breeds invention


If the financial and occupational achievement


of the 3% of Yale University’s class of 1952


who put their goals into writing


equaled the entire net worth of the rest of the graduating class 20 years later


are you more likely to be better off


by planning your work and working your plan?


 


Therefore, the country that uses this crisis to make its population smarter


and more innovative


and endows its people with more tools and basic research


h to invent new goods and services


is the one that will not just survive but thrive down the road


 


We might be able to stimulate our way back to stability


but we can only invent our way back to prosperity


 


If achievement takes less time with a plan


can you get farther faster than those without


and vice versa?


 


We need everyone at every level to get smarter


 


We need to do all we can now to get more brains connected


 to more capital


 to spawn more new companies faster


 


Invent, Invent, Invent


Thomas L Friedman


New York Times, June 28, 2009


 


If life is a room of open doors leading to other open doors


do what you and/or others do or don’t


determine what doors stay open or lock you in or out?

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