Machiavellian

I have solved my manuscript problem and the solution is very powerful. I am brilliant. This is why people fear me — I can get things done. I have also gotten someone into graduate school this week, fully funded, no mean feat from here, so I am jumping, running, winning.

I have remembered another technique for the use of time time time that I used to use before Reeducation. This is very important and it will go into my advice manual: you should schedule time to walk the floor. There is value in walking the floor but there is no need to let it take over your life. You can clear your mind for regular work during most of the day if you also make an appointment with yourself to walk the floor over the issues clouding your troubled mind.

In Reeducation, this technique was part of the evidence marshaled in the case against me. I was too efficient, a coldhearted scientist. “A healthy individual would not be able to work in these circumstances. You should be feeling the pain more deeply.” In reality the opposite is true; a healthy individual can put things into perspective. And person with a brilliant strategy schedules in floor-walking time — you can get a lot done and have a life too.

Axé.


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