Do you, like me, feel the pressure to make lists, achieve goals, aim higher, do more? \u00a0And if yes, does this get transferred to your children?\u00a0 Try harder.\u00a0 Do your best.\u00a0 Get stuff done. \u00a0Never slouch around.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s striking about the lives of the great thinkers, inventors, artists and pioneers is just how many of them spent a good deal of their time just bumming around, wondering about stuff.\u00a0 Isaac Newton\u2019s story, apocryphal or not, is an example.\u00a0 If he had been rushing around, fixing the plumbing or frantically chopping firewood, he\u2019d never have had the time to sit in that garden at Woolsthorpe under the apple tree and ask why.\u00a0 \u2018How do you come up with these great ideas?\u2019 you might ask.\u00a0 \u2018By thinking unto them\u2019, he said.\u00a0 And for that, you\u2019ve got to be chilling, not writing lists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Do you, like me, feel the pressure to make lists, achieve goals, aim higher, do more? \u00a0And if yes, does this get transferred to your children?\u00a0 Try harder.\u00a0 Do your best.\u00a0 Get stuff done. \u00a0Never…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n