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Ever since high school I’ve had a phrase from a physicist told to my parents: “Sasha is a bright head, but so lazy. Only years later I realized how poorly she understood me (as did I myself). At that time I hated the school that was foreign to me, which happened after we moved to Kiev from my native tiny town Desna. But such is the way a young man’s mind that the words of an adult are capable of poking a splinter to poison him for a long time afterwards. Her words were true, but they were lies.
Looking back at my childhood, I can see how eager I was to immerse myself in a subject if I found it genuinely interesting. Once I got my curiosity hooked on the caption under the illustration, I was devouring Jack London, Mein Ried, and the Library of Adventures volume after volume. During such periods, the main problem is the inability to stop, not laziness at all. The same phenomenon manifested itself later every time again. When I was fascinated by advertising, I studied before, during and after work 24/7/365. The same frenzied thirst for knowledge possessed me during my studies at the Chicago Business School, then during the period of passion for investments, psychotherapy, TRIZ, Brazilian jujitsu, etc., etc.
But if you don’t know about these fruitful periods, skip them or devalue them, then yes, you can say that I demonstrate apathy, passivity and indifference. What many people are vividly interested in, I find boring, trivial, and bland. Exactly until a miraculous “click” occurs, the place and time of which are impossible to predict. The paradox is that what seemed to the physicist and the others to be laziness in me actually meant the opposite - I am a fantastically efficient person, but only if something has a deep personal meaning for me.
Are you familiar with that voice rebuking you for not wanting to do something supposedly important?
Yours sincerely,
-Alexander
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