This is Living
Someone once told me that still waters run deep. I guess back then I was just fascinated by the phrase and paid little attention to what it really meant. All through school, I perfected the art of skimming over things. Like a burst of water running over a rock, I read through pages of materials with incredible speed and basically got the general overview. My reading style worked well for me—at least for a while. I prided myself on being able to get through vast amounts of reading materials in an amazingly short period of time. I could also talk about what I had read with great precision but with little conviction. Paying attention to details was never my strongest point. Having a holistic idea was more fun than getting bogged down in details. I felt that getting down to the tiniest detail would mean spending more time in a particular position—and that was no fun at all. I always wanted to do something else, move on to the next phase, and face new heights...
