Care for yourself first

(from 2006)

I’ll say this again: your ability to succeed in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to maintain flow state under pressure. Last week on “Commander In chief” there was a bit about how potential contributors to a presidential campaign wanted to watch the President dealing with an emergency. This week on “24” a weasel of a president claimed that he had acted under “duress” in an emergency, excusing felonious behavior.

One often hears that grand excuse: “I was under stre...