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Talk too much about what you want to do before you act, the theory goes, and you never will.
I once read an article which said that people should refrain from speaking about work they’re doing until it’s complete. As I remember it, there was a scientific study which suggesed that talking about doing something apparently “scratches the same itch”, neurobiologically speaking, as actually doing something.1
Talk too much about what you want to do before you act, the theory goes, and you never will.
I’m pretty sure I’ve taken that idea too far lately. There has been, in fact, a major change in my life which I haven’t written about yet. My plan was to announce it alongside some projects that I’ve been working on. But when I ended up being far, far busier than I had planned and all my work took much longer than I expected, I was still afraid to talk about things until they were almost ready to go because…
Well. You know.
- You’ll just have to trust me on this because my Google-fu is failing me right now [↩]
Revolutionaries
My friend Pamela Brown, the writer behind the words at Emission Control, wrote this on her Facebook wall yesterday on the occasion of Martin Luther King’s birthday.
My friend Pamela Brown, the writer behind the words at Emission Control, wrote this on her Facebook wall yesterday on the occasion of Martin Luther King’s birthday.
I liked it and, with her kind permission, I’m reprinting it here:
Today is also my father’s birthday…he is 87… I asked him what he thought, having lived almost twice as long as MLK… He said, “I never thought we would make it this far…we were really the bottom of the bottom…they wanted to wipe us out, but they couldn’t…”
I feel that my father is also an #americanrevolutionary – he fought his whole life for the education of so-called under privileged children with so-called learning disabilities…underlying his tireless efforts was the belief that no matter where any child started, they could rise as a part of African-American progress. For him, his work was political action.
He never made a lot of money like we would think of today, but he always viewed himself as wealthy… Each day he left on his mission before 7am, and *after* work didn’t exist… When he was forced into retirement, he returned as a volunteer… #americanrevolutionary
