Comments on: Learning, the easy way http://www.jackzen.com/2005/07/31/learning-the-easy-way/ ...........................just noticing Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:43:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: jack http://www.jackzen.com/2005/07/31/learning-the-easy-way/#comment-266 Mon, 01 Aug 2005 17:44:56 +0000 http://www.jackzen.com/2005/07/31/learning-the-easy-way/#comment-266 That is a Great story John, thanks brother. That is a Great story John, thanks brother.

]]> by: John Ettorre http://www.jackzen.com/2005/07/31/learning-the-easy-way/#comment-265 Mon, 01 Aug 2005 13:00:20 +0000 http://www.jackzen.com/2005/07/31/learning-the-easy-way/#comment-265 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. 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.

]]> by: jack http://www.jackzen.com/2005/07/31/learning-the-easy-way/#comment-264 Mon, 01 Aug 2005 01:32:51 +0000 http://www.jackzen.com/2005/07/31/learning-the-easy-way/#comment-264 I think the view is vital, agreed. It is a choice we make in the face of sometimes powerful undertoes of powerlessness. I think the view is vital, agreed. It is a choice we make in the face of sometimes powerful undertoes of powerlessness.

]]> by: jaclyn http://www.jackzen.com/2005/07/31/learning-the-easy-way/#comment-263 Mon, 01 Aug 2005 01:19:12 +0000 http://www.jackzen.com/2005/07/31/learning-the-easy-way/#comment-263 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. 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.

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