Further thoughts on 'enough is enough'
January 16, 2007
Last week I asked the question, more for myself after a 'complaint' by my partner when enough is enough in regards to reading books, blogs etc on growing the business as well growing as an individual.
Comment made by my mentor on this 'issue':
"Remember, "Success is the journey", not the destination - you never stop. Like anything in life you move on just a little more each day. We all do - even I keep reading, attending seminars, talking, etc etc!
I will never know everything - how boring is that?"
Well for one thing, he's never boring.
Read another wonderful quote on this only yesterday (because I will keep reading of course):
"It's more important to know some of the questions than all the answers" (James Thurber)
Learned something again, just by reading
(Side-note: last sentence could be entered in the Keep it Brief contest!)
Karin, as a old frined of mine always said, "Readers are leaders and leaders are readers". I think the real challenge is making sure that your mind doesn't get 'cluttered' by all the variations and flows of thinking. Every now and again I go and delete blogs from my RSS feed reader if I feel I'm not really benefiting from them; clear the air so to speak.
Posted by: Shane | January 16, 2007 at 05:26 PM
Hi Shane, thanks for dropping by and your comment (wise as ever).
Know the feeling and try to keep the 'dead-wood' out of my thoughts (and RSS feeds of course), but most are very interesting or inspiring.
Posted by: Karin | January 17, 2007 at 10:41 AM
Karin and Shane - great stuff. I've been tracking the blogs I read for a few days - trying to see which ones are good enough to prompt me to do something (like comment - Kiss2 passes the test!).
"Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-truths and Total Nonsense" by Robert I Sutton and Jeffrey Pfeffer can help weed out the good business writing from the bad. See my summary posted July 26, 2006.
Kent
Posted by: Kent Blumberg | January 18, 2007 at 02:38 AM
Hi Kent
The first guideline on your list stands out:
Treat old ideas like old ideas."
Well, that's another book to put on my wish-list ;-)
Posted by: Karin | January 18, 2007 at 11:59 AM