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Consider the Consequences
Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something. The potential consequences of any task or activity are the key determinants of how much effort you will need to expend on a particular assignment or class. This way of evaluating the significance of a task is how you determine what your next frog really is.
Dr. Edward Banfield of Harvard University, after more than fifty years of research, concluded that a “long time perspective” is the most accurate single predictor of upward social and economic mobility in America. A long time perspective turns out to be more important than family ...
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