about how bored they were. "Writing is excessive drudgery ," once such jotting reads, "it crooks your back, it dims your sight, it twists your stomach and your sides." And then one scribbling on one manuscript just goes, "Oh my hand." And that was just dumb, because actually writing out
being you can decide to get up the morning and be a passive sleepwalking drone bumbling through the drudgery of existence or you can wake up in the morning and be awake ignited and engaged in the passionate pursuit of his
How am I going to electrify other sectors of the economy, particularly transportation? How am I going to bring drudgery saving electric power to everyone around the world, perhaps for free? Including that we have two billion people on this planet that do not have access to electricity at this moment.
It's not by choice. His life is full of drudgery and displeasure, until Saturday night comes, when he puts on this duds-- his beautiful, fancy, three-piece,
Finally, that was the solution. It'll do for mental drudgery what a machine did for physical drudgery . And it didn't happen.
are? "The answer wasn't exercise. My experience trying to find and use a proper gym, somewhere with the full complements of weights and an attractive array of cardiovascular machines and a setting that blunted the potential drudgery of it all, made that immediately clear. In the center of Rome, where The Times office was located, there was nothing like a spacious gleaming equinox where past illegitimate fitness centers were the sorts of perfunctory setups you found in hotels. They were depressing and they weren't gonna motivate me to visit
But they were no longer strangers. They had charmed me with their daring jokes, their code words for particular beauty procedures, their gallant laughter in the face of the drudgery that I guessed awaited them once they stepped out of the magical perimeter of Lola's salon. The next morning, when my mother armed me with a parasol to protect my newly lightened skin and dispatched me to the bazaar to buy bitter
He worked tirelessly to bring electric power freely to the world. And he built robots that he thought would reduce life's drudgery . He was, in short, driven by inner forces that made shear creation the most important thing in his life.
It is all candy. And it's a very-- Is there candy drudgery ? A little. It's a very sweet environment, yes.
Or is there any part of it that's kind of like a drag? When you hear actors talk about the hours of waiting in the trailer and the drudgery of making a film. Was it all fun?
Have you seen "Into Thin Air?" Right? It's not that. It's a long drudgery kind of journey where you're 5 and 1/2 days up the mountain, 1 and 1/2 days down.
use. His real interest was to help get people off of farms and into cities. He grew up on a farm himself and he thought that was just a terrible place to have to be all by yourself. He was also afraid of horses and didn't like farm work so he wanted to remove some of the drudgery ; but you know there was also this social component of garages. They were places to hang out or in the case here of the Homebrew Computer Club, which is again it's almost mythical, in terms of the formation of and start of computing in the Valley but Steve
you're doing it, what I think you'll find -- and I think it's totally correlates with it being such a valuable survival tool in a sense is that movement is joyful. Movement isn't about -- we didn't become successful as a species because movement was drudgery , painful, and you know, something that led us having to see a professional every time we did it in order to put us back together.
The last quick story I wanted to tell you, just to wrap up in the last five minutes, is now looking at aspects of our psychology and cognitive So there are many different ways that we choose to change how our mind works, to basically get out of the drudgery of everyday life and how that, let's say,
He's thinking specifically of drones in warfare. Right? The amount of value that you get from an agentive technology is so great, I believe, that going back becomes drudgery .
In one year I lost all this weight, and then in months I put half of it back on again. Even after that second day on the Rongai route, which is 10 hours of hiking-- 10 hours of just drudgery .