Thinking Long

Life Isn't Short: What it Means For Your Success

Tom Butler Bowdon | Posted 19.05.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Tom Butler Bowdon

Life may sometimes feel short at a philosophical level, and there is always the chance we may die young. But for most people in well-off countries today, life is not, as the 17th-century political philosopher Thomas Hobbes famously put it, 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short'.

The Power of Thinking Long

Tom Butler Bowdon | Posted 01.05.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Tom Butler Bowdon

Books with titles like Change Your Life in 7 Days, while superficially attractive, have nothing to do with the reality of building success through the years and decades. While it feels great to be inspired by a book or a motivational seminar, these pumped-up moments tell us nothing about how we bring desired things into being across a lifetime.