Monday, October 23, 2006

Cognitive Endurance

Honesty ^ Curiosity ^ Follow-through

Clear, productive thinking can’t be sustained without honesty. Without it, cognition gets tangled, threadbare, compromised, structurally unsound…

Curiosity – an appetite for discovery – is a sustainable fuel. It steadily propels the soul's rambles, pilgrimages, and ascents.

I wonder if follow-through can become a habit. It is certainly a discipline – a practice I seek to cultivate and deepen. I aspire to the art of finishing; I suffer the empty ache of failing to finish.


Copyright Scott Burnett 2006

2 comments:

Lora said...

each day that you go to work you are following through, participating in the discipline of "finishing" in some respect.

Scott said...

That's very true, Lora, and it's a nice reminder to remember the big picture. Thanks.