In my last post I wrote about the importance of “Taking the Long View” by which I mean, not allowing yourself to get caught up in short term thinking, such that you are unable to imagine adding to your life those things that take a long time to master. I believe that this is an important idea especially since we live in a world that seems to constantly bombard us with the notion that we “can have it all”, and we “can have it all right now”. This of course is false, as we intuitively know that most things take time to achieve. Even so, it is difficult to live outside that system. Taking the long view can help with that, I think.

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