There's a commentary going on inside our heads and it could be anything. It could be meandering like it could be panicky. Oh my god, how do I get out of here? Uh it could be busy. Oh my god, I could be doing this. I could be doing that. Where's my scrambled
It just doesn't work that way. We tend to meander our way, I think, a lot of times through life. I've told the younger guys, hopefully, I've saved you 10 or 15 years of wandering in the wilderness, if you will.
The office, you're going to need to hire some new staff to do this and that. And you generally meander around. I was just thinking about the letter that I'd sent to my successor along those lines.
Because the ballet dancers have to have the beat. Musicians they tend to meander off into these less important things. But something else happened that was more interesting than that, is that, in that environment, where you're coming in and you've got a boss and sometimes you are
Watch the rivers go. These are called meanders , and the river is meandering . And what that means is that as the sedimentation comes from the Andes and gets deposited, the river actually changes its banks.
from applying new technology, like the telescope and the microscope, to find out new things? Could you navigate a shortcut route through that network rather than meandering , stumbling down blind alleys route that we took the first time around? So could you accelerate what took us perhaps 10,000 years the first time and squash that down to perhaps a few generations
To make sure that you never came into any contact with anybody in power, right? This was the key thing, and you can just meander through the civil service. My -- you know, I was an economist there, and I used to write articles about Europe for the governor of the bank. And just think about it now.
But it totally isn't. It's like super long, autobiographical, meandering just shit, really awful, which is to say it's longer stuff. So this wasn't a crazy departure for me, even though some people would be forgiven for thinking that it is.
starts meaning something different, depending on where you are in your life. But, if you don't start asking yourself that question, then it becomes very difficult to even get on track. And what I find myself doing even at this point, I'm just kind of meandering . I thought I was going to be climbing a lot. I thought, at this point, I'd have all the money I needed; wanted. I wouldn't have to worry about it. It wasn't what I really wanted.