Learning, the easy way
So this weekend I spent one quick click accidentally deleting forever a presentation I spent most of this past week creating. It was very content rich and losing it felt like the Tibetan monks dumping the exquisite sand mandalas they create one grain at a time over a week or so. I’ve now reinvented it and I’m much more pleased with the second version.
July 31st, 2005 21:19
i am glad that you chose to view your loss as an opportunity for improvement.
i would still be curled in the fetal position in front of my computer.
July 31st, 2005 21:32
I think the view is vital, agreed. It is a choice we make in the face of sometimes powerful undertoes of powerlessness.
August 1st, 2005 09:00
I feel your pain, Jack. I’ve certainly been there. On the other hand, here’s a possibly inspiring tale of work loss: While still (barely) in my snot-nosed 20s, I played with an essay through perhaps a dozen drafts, intending to send it to the New York Times op-ed page. After finally liking it enough to send, I promptly lost it. So I started over, through another dozen drafts, relying on memory. Just as I was getting reasonably comfortable with that version, I found the first version. Studying them both, I realized half of each was good, so I combined the best elements of the two. And on a sunny Saturday morning in Portland, Maine, I walked to a newstand at dawn to pick up a copy of the NYT that bore my much-sweated-over article. The moral of the story: from sweat, pain and sometimes loss, good things can happen.
August 1st, 2005 13:44
That is a Great story John, thanks brother.