One Man’s Walk through life

My Priorities

So some friends and I were playing a game in the car where we read questions from a book and answer them. Two of the more interesting questions and my answers follow. It’s interesting how when you’re actively searching for the answer to a tough question you can find clues in the weirdest places.

Q: If you had one wish what would you wish for?

A: Wisdom

Q: If you could be master one type of artistic expression, which would it be?

A: Speaking, followed shortly by writing
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So first, I apparently have 3 things I need to start concentrating on: building wisdom, speaking, and writing.

Now my current activities don’t actually reflect these priorities at all. That’s not good. I spend all my time at work and dancing, which don’t necessarily contribute to either of these goals. In order:

• Wisdom – Well, aside from living, the only way I know to increase wisdom is to listen to people that are wiser than I, both in person and in writing. To that end, I’m starting to keep default.BooksToRead, which are a list of all the books I should read, ‘’please, if you’re reading this post, add to this list the books that you think I should read.’’ I’m going to make reading a priority.

• Speaking – You learn to speak by speaking, so I’ll be submitting some abstracts for presentations this coming year, was talking w/ Zak Tamsen about a “Using .Net on Agile Projects” session. I need to find other places to talk.

• Writing – So that’s what this blog is all about, right? My writing needs a lot of work before I could, say, write a book, but I’m working on that…

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