Pursuit of Happiness: Just Two Questions
I read something in the New York Times yesterday, which struck me for its profound importance in our daily lives. It's a blog entry by Maira Kalman: And The Pursuit of Happiness.
Maira talks about Benjamin Franklin, his numerous inventions and how he went about living his life. It seems Franklin had an interesting habit of asking two questions every day, one in the morning and the other in the evening:
Morning question: What good shall I do today?
Evening question: What good have I done today?
The immediate impact of reading this stuff was that I woke up my daughter at 7 am, which she, as expected, resisted, but couldn't help against my steely resolve to "do some good," and then took her to the basketball court. The play was fun, of course.
Well, not surprisingly, Maira's entry has already climbed to the top spot in NYT's current list of the most e-mailed articles. It deserves. Have a look: And The Pursuit of Happiness
Maira talks about Benjamin Franklin, his numerous inventions and how he went about living his life. It seems Franklin had an interesting habit of asking two questions every day, one in the morning and the other in the evening:
Morning question: What good shall I do today?
Evening question: What good have I done today?
The immediate impact of reading this stuff was that I woke up my daughter at 7 am, which she, as expected, resisted, but couldn't help against my steely resolve to "do some good," and then took her to the basketball court. The play was fun, of course.
Well, not surprisingly, Maira's entry has already climbed to the top spot in NYT's current list of the most e-mailed articles. It deserves. Have a look: And The Pursuit of Happiness
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