"3. “There is no straight path from your seat today to where you are going. Don’t try to draw that line.” Life is not linear. Opportunity usually arrives in life in strange and unexpected ways. Opportunity also tends to arrive in a lumpy fashion. This nonlinearity and lumpiness means that it is wise to be both patient and ready to be very aggressive when opportunity presents itself. One odd thing that I like to do (there are many) is read obituaries. When you read a good obituary it often reinforces how nonlinear life can be. The line “life is one damn thing after another” is variously attributed to Edna St Vincent Millay and to Elbert Hubbard, but whoever said it was speaking to a fundamental truth. You can see the nonlinear path life takes in many obituaries."
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