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Old 07-20-2007, 08:26 PM   #11 (permalink)
MariaG
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Xin, you may want to look at a book called Goal-Free Living. It talks a lot about how pursuing narrow goals is a lot like putting blinders on. The metaphor in the book is having a compass - a la Bill Gates "knowing what he wants" - instead of a roadmap - having each step planned down to the minute.
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