How do I work harder? Easy. Never stop. Never stop working towards your goal (you do have a goal, right?). Never stop thinking about what it is you want to achieve. Never give yourself a break. Find the time to work on your goals every day. And if you can’t find the time, make the time to work on your goals every day. Create a schedule, adopt a routine and be consistent. Because the thing is, when you’re consistent and disciplined, you’ll inch yourself forward every single day. Even if it’s just a little bit, it’ll really add up. If the lucky guy who has the life you want is 700 steps ahead of you and you take two small steps forward every day, it’ll only be a year before you overtake him. “Crap, that’s a long time,” you might say. Yeah, it is. But it’ll be even longer if you don’t get to work now. And really, it’s not that long. Think back about the last two years where you may have been doing little to nothing. That flew by pretty fast, didn’t it? If you would have written 100 words towards that novel you’ve been meaning to get on paper since college, you would have 730,000 words done by now. If you’d been following a weight training regimen since then, you’d be benching 150 percent of your body weight. Yeah. Make a plan. Stick to it. I mean it. It’s your only hope.
(Source: primermagazine.com)
“Perhaps natural philosopher is too wide and too lofty a term to describe people who do science. However, I think we may have given something up when we abandoned natural philosopher for scientist. It isolated us, allowed us retreat into pursuing scientific discovery for its own sake, and in doing so, cut science off from the humanities and scientists off from their responsibilities as citizens. I don’t know whether anything we do can change the course we’re on, but I know we have to try.”
