If You Dedicate Your Attention To Discipline

One Of The Things I Have Tried To Do With This Book And With All Of Them Really Is Avoid That Simple, Easy, Reductionist View Of Motivation And To Show We Do Things For A Complex Net Of Reasons, A Real Braid Of Reasons.

Lists Of Books We Reread And Books We Can't Finish Tell More About Us Than About The Relative Worth Of The Books Themselves.

They Were Gone And I Missed Them But Even So I Was Very Happy. For The Rest Of My Life No Matter Where On This Planet Earth I Went And No Matter How Scared Or Confused I Got, I Could Wait Until Dark And Look Up Into The Night Sky And See My Three Friends Again And My Heart Would Swell With Love Of Them And Make Me Strong And Clearheaded.

I Much Prefer Working With Kids Whose Life Could Be Completely Upended By A Reading Of A Book Over A Weekend. You Give Them A Book To Read - They Go Home And Come Back A Changed Person. And That Is So Much More Interesting And Exciting.

And Out Of A Desire Essentially To Imitate What I Was Reading, I Began To Write, Like A Clever Monkey.