In other words, the process is more important than the goal, eh?
Exactly! You don’t have to be smarter or better read than anyone else, you only have to make yourself better than you were previously. It is all about concentrating on filling up one’s own cup, not on how much your neighbor holds in his cup. Dr. Johnson claimed, “A desire of knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind; and every human being, whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has, to get knowledge.” Prove that your mind is not “debauched,” and give your “all” to “get knowledge.” Q: So it would make sense that you are a teacher! A: Indeed! My personal life as a thinker and professional life as a teacher are almost completely enmeshed! For example, I recently finished teaching Christianity and am now teaching Islam. At night in my free time I was reading a book about Paul of Tarsus and his portion of the Gospels during the pax Romana; now I am reading about the phenomenon of fundamentalist Islam and its refutation of Western modernism. It is an existence rev
