Thursday
my coworker (while alone in the office) decided to do us a favor and
defrost our small office refrigerator that had cooling coils which
over time had become heavily built up with ice. When we arrived
Friday morning he gave a picturesque narrative of his exploits. He
reported making major headway chipping out the ice until he gave a
major thrust and his tool punctured the wall of the small freezing
compartment. All the refrigerant quickly escaped. We all laughed
and then he said ”Well I did accomplished what I set out to do—I
defrosted the refrigerator.”
Here
we see an example of the magic of carefully defined goals. When
focus is managed with sufficient discipline, it is possible to
retrieve victory from the jaws of defeat. With similar logic I have
seen many of the atrocities of war dismissed as irrelevant so long as
a glittering form of success is carefully enunciated by highly placed
officials. In the end, the experience becomes a trip into
Wonderland.
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