The things that make a great job great, I discovered, are rare and valuable. If you want them in your working life, you need something rare and valuable to offer in return. In other words, you need to be good at something before you can expect a good job. Of course, mastery by itself is not enough to guarantee happiness. Don't follow your passion; rather, let it follow you in your quest to become, "so good that they can't ignore you."

سلطان محمود، هركسى كه مذهبى غير از مذهب تسنن داشت، به عنوان بددين، بى دين، قرمطى واتهام مشابه اورا مى كشت واموالش را مصادره مى كرد. اكر اسپانيا در طول ٧٠٠ سال دهها هزار بددين را كشت، ((سلطان محمود دريك سال (٤٢١ هجرى قمرى) پنجاه هزار انسان رادر رى به اتهام قرمطى كشت) (باسورث، ٥٢ :١٣٧٨). به همين خاطر فردوسى مى سرايد: زيان كسان از پى سود خويش بجويند و دين اندر آرند به پيش

ذهن بشر مانند زمين بكرى است كه هر بذرى در آن كاشته شود، همان سبز مى شود. اكر زمين مستعد وبذر مرغوب باشد، محصول خوبى حاصل مى شود، در غير اين صورت اميد به برداشت محصول خوب نيست. بنابراين، هر نوع آموزشى كه در بدو طفوليت به نونهالان هر مملكتى بدهند، همان آموخته ها مظروف ذهن آنها به شمار مى روند. از مكافات عمل غافل مشو گندم از گندم برويد جو ز جو (مولانا)

Next time you hear that an apparently perfect marriage between two perfectly well-matched partners is on the rocks, don't be too surprised. It's a clear case of set-up overestima-tion. Frankly, anyone who's spent more than five minutes in a relationship should already know that without ongoing fine-tuning and repairs, it doesn't work. All partnerships have to be consistently nurtured. The most common misunderstanding I encounter is that the good life is a stable state or condi-tion. Wrong. The good life is only achieved through constant readjustment.