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Scattered and Paralyzed
The internet seems to act like a prism, scattering our attention in a hundred different directions. First, this is translated into a healthy dose of curiosity and a broader view of the world. But, over time and surreptitiously, one finds that the prism scatters one's attention beyond the wavelengths of curiosity and into those of distraction and confusion; a thousand winds now blow in his sail, and the ship of knowledge roams aimlessly and without a compass the uncharted seas of information.
It's not uncommon today to find young people with wide ranges of interest; physics, history, philosophy, biology, poetry, art, literature, and every other thing under the sun. And one is tempted to believe that this indicates a great potential and a cosmopolitan mind. Sometimes this is surely correct, but oftentimes it's a symptom of disorientation and an indicator that this young man will grow up finding himself a jack of all trades, and a master of none.
The internet seems to act like a prism, scattering our attention in a hundred different directions. First, this is translated into a healthy dose of curiosity and a broader view of the world. But, over time and surreptitiously, one finds that the prism scatters one's attention beyond the wavelengths of curiosity and into those of distraction and confusion; a thousand winds now blow in his sail, and the ship of knowledge roams aimlessly and without a compass the uncharted seas of information.
It's not uncommon today to find young people with wide ranges of interest; physics, history, philosophy, biology, poetry, art, literature, and every other thing under the sun. And one is tempted to believe that this indicates a great potential and a cosmopolitan mind. Sometimes this is surely correct, but oftentimes it's a symptom of disorientation and an indicator that this young man will grow up finding himself a jack of all trades, and a master of none.
This is another way in which one procrastinates: when one's mind is scattered, one's will becomes paralyzed; the figurative muscles twitch and contract, each fiber in a different rhythm and direction... Then paralysis ensues, not because he can't move his muscles, but because the moves are frantic and disorganized, then it's right to say that he has a spastic paralysis of the will.
In the past the man has been first, in the future the system must be first.
— Frederick Winslaw Taylor
— Frederick Winslaw Taylor
كان يُقال أنّ الله تعالى قد يأمرُ بالشيء ويَبتلي بثَقلِه، وينهى عن الشيء ويَبتَلي بشهوتِه. فإذا كُنتَ لا تعملُ من الخير إلا ما اشتَهَيتَه ولا تَتركُ من الشَّرِّ إلا ما كرِهتَه، فقد أطلَعتَ الشيطانَ على عَورَتِك وأمكَنتَه من رُمَّتِك. فأوشَكَ أنْ يَقتَحِمَ عليك فيما تُحِب من الخير فيُكَرِّهَه إليك، وفيما تكره من الشر فَيُحَبِّبَه إليك.
حَياةُ الشيطانِ تَركُ العِلم، وروحه وجَسَدُه الجَّهل، ومَعدِنُه في أهلِ الحِقد والقَساوة، ومَثواه في أهلِ الغَضَب، وعَيشُه في المُصارَمة، ورَجاؤه في الإصرارِ على الذّنوب.
رأسُ الذنوبِ الكَذِب: هو يؤسِّسُها وهو يَتَفَقَّدُها ويُثَبِّتُها. ويَتلون ثلاثةَ ألوان: بالأُمنيةِ والجُّحودِ والجَدَل. يَبدو لصاحبه بالأُمنِيَةِ الكاذبة فيما يُزَيِّنُ له من الشهواتِ فيشجِّعُه عليها بأنّ ذلك سَيَخفى. فإذا ظَهَرَ عليه قابَلَه بالجُّحودِ والمُكابَرَة، فإنْ أعياهُ ذلك خَتَمَ بالجَّدَل، فخاصَمَ عنِ الباطِلِ وَوَضَعَ له الحُجَجَ والتَمَسَ به التَّثَبُّتَ وكابَرَ به الحقَّ حتى يكونَ مُسارِعًا للضلالةِ ومُكابِرًا بالفواحِشِ.