How can we undertake to bring up the young? In old days
people were simpler and thought less, and so settled problems boldly. But we
think too much, we are eaten up by logic.
The more developed a man is, the more he reflects and gives himself up to subtleties, the more undecided and scrupulous he becomes, and the more timidity he shows in taking action. How much courage and self-confidence it needs, when one comes to look into it closely, to undertake to teach, to judge, to write a thick book.
The more developed a man is, the more he reflects and gives himself up to subtleties, the more undecided and scrupulous he becomes, and the more timidity he shows in taking action. How much courage and self-confidence it needs, when one comes to look into it closely, to undertake to teach, to judge, to write a thick book.
Anton Chekhov – Home (short story published in 1887)
We certainly do overthink it.
ReplyDeleteJames - I think that's because someone has to make up for those that don't.
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