frm How to procrastinate like
Leonardo da Vinci http://bit.ly/4z8z4t
"Productive mediocrity requires discipline of an ordinary kind. It is
safe and threatens no one. Nothing will be changed by mediocrity;
mediocrity is completely predictable. It doesn't make the powerful and
self-satisfied feel insecure. It doesn't require freedom, because it
doesn't do anything unexpected. Mediocrity is the opposite of what we
call "genius." Mediocrity gets perfectly mundane things done on time.
But genius is uncontrolled and uncontrollable. You cannot produce a
work of genius according to a schedule or an outline. As Leonardo knew,
it happens through random insights resulting from unforeseen
combinations. Genius is inherently outside the realm of known
disciplines and linear career paths. Mediocrity does exactly what it's
told, like the docile factory workers envisioned by Frederick Winslow
Taylor."
A long but I consider interesting article written by W.A. Pannapacker.
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