The Unlearning

Lucy Kellaway has an amusing riff on the difference between school and work in today’s Financial Times. From the blandly philosophical:

First, it teaches you that there is a fairly straightforward relationship between effort and result. In exams, if you work very, very hard in the evenings you are going to do an awful lot better than if you spend your evenings in the pub. In most office life, this is not true. The relationship between effort and reward is much more complicated. Read the rest of this entry »

found in an old notebook

“How can you bear to be so contemptible, when others are working and striving, and there are so many things to be done—how can you bear to be fit for nothing in the world that is useful?” —Middlemarch