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Gregory B. Sadler's avatar

I'm certainly sympathetic to this idea of looking at and making choices about our lives as if they were analogous to works of art. For me, though, the notion of striving to make it like a masterpiece is rather unattractive. I'm cool with making my life a good and interesting work, but not with setting up that kind of standard

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Michael Spicher (ARL)'s avatar

I guess that's what I mean. We get to define what "masterpiece" means to us. It's also worth aiming as high as possible (and reasonable). We might not get there, but why not try?

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Kate Kerr's avatar

Michael, this essay captures what I have endeavored to share with my students over the years. Beautifully crafted!

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Michael Spicher (ARL)'s avatar

Thank you, Kate!

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