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letting go

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2012.06.07

Here's the blurb I found on whether investing time in something makes sense.

It's adapted from a post at a Harvard Business Review blog.

"I've come up with four questions I now ask myself each time I begin to wonder if it's time to ease back on something or someone I've been pursuing.

Here they are:

1. Do I have a feeling in my gut that this isn't going to come to anything?

2. Is there a more enjoyable and productive way I could be investing my time and energy right now?

3. How important will this seem to me in six months?

4. How important will this seem to me in two years?

If the answer to 1 and 2 are "yes," or the answers to 3 and 4 are "not much," it's time to let go."

rand()m quote

Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.

—T.S. Eliot