Category: philosophy

the myth of Career Success

On By Rick McIn education, happiness, philosophyLeave a comment

A few lucky people find the career that makes them happiest. Mark and Delia Owens, Lion researchers, for example. They plan to continue studying lions for the rest of their lives.

But that’s not what happens to the majority.

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Follow Your Bliss.

Thanks Andy.

FREEDOM 55 !!! !!

On By Rick McIn humour, philosophy4 Comments

I MADE IT.

No more commitments, complications, entanglements.

I’ll now embrace a radical simplicity, letting go of wasteful speech, costume, display. Be more sufficient unto myself.

No more chasing the rat. Who needs money and possessions?

Time to follow my BLISS.

🙂

related – Freedom 55: The whole idea is so 1980s

He sheltered with an epicier …

On By Rick McIn philosophyLeave a comment

That’s a phrase you’ve never read before.

It’s from an obituary of Count Robert de La Rochefoucauld – dead at 88:

… En route to his execution in Auxerre, La Rochefoucauld made a break, leaping from the back of the truck carrying him to his doom, and dodging the bullets fired by his two guards. Sprinting through the empty streets, he found himself in front of the Gestapo’s headquarters, where a chauffeur was pacing near a limousine bearing the swastika flag. Spotting the key in the ignition, La Rochefoucauld jumped in and roared off, following the Route Nationale past the prison he had left an hour earlier.

He smashed through a roadblock before dumping the car and circling back towards Auxerre on foot under cover of night. He sheltered with an epicier. From Auxerre, friends in the Resistance helped him on to a train for Paris, where he evaded German soldiers hunting him by curling up underneath the sink in the lavatory. “When we arrived in Paris I felt drunk with freedom,” he recalled. …

read more about his amazing life on Telegraph

(via Kottke)