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Monday Morning Memo


“But I Don’t Know How”

Celebrate! Celebrate the fact that you’re not inside the box. You’ve been given the breathless opportunity to figure it out for yourself. You stand this moment tiptoe at the precipice of discovery. Leap, and the net will appear.

Jump. Commit. Pull the trigger and ride the bullet. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was right: “At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.”

You can see it in your mind. Why do you keep talking? If you take the first step, the second will appear. And then the third.

The time to shut up is now. There is no time to look for your shoes, no map to buy, no expert to ask for directions. Unless, of course, you hope to be painfully average.

Is mediocrity really your goal?

Shut the hell up and jump.
 

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“DAVIDSON: Are you as skeptical about religion as you are about politics?

DIDION: I am quite religious in a certain way. I was brought up Episcopalian, and I stopped going to church because I hated the stories. You know the story about the prodigal son? I have never understood that story. I have never understood why the prodigal son should be treated any better than the other son. I have missed the point of a lot of parables. I have much too literal and practical a mind, they just don’t appeal to me, they irritate me. But I like the words of the Episcopal service, and I say them over and over in my mind. ‘As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.’ It’s a very comforting phrase to a child. And to an adult. I have a very rigid sense of right and wrong. What I mean is, I use the words all the time. Even the smallest things. A table can be right or wrong.”

- Sara Davidson, A Visit With Joan Didion, The New York Times Book Review, April 3, 1977

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