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1 March 2010

William DeresiewiczKorrents 1 Mar 2010

From one piece Solitude and Leadership (The American Scholar) 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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Solitude seems to be the very essence of leadership

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But it seems to me that solitude is the very essence of leadership.

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Multitasking is not thinking and impairs the ability to think, which means concentrating on one thing long enough

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Multitasking, in short, is not only not thinking, it impairs your ability to think. Thinking means concentrating on one thing long enough to develop an idea about it.

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True leadership means being able to think for yourself and act on your convictions

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That’s the first half of the lecture: the idea that true leadership means being able to think for yourself and act on your convictions.

Solitude and Leadership (The American Scholar)theamericanscholar.org

1 June 2008

William DeresiewiczKorrents 1 Jun 2008

From one piece The Disadvantages of an Elite Education (The American Scholar) 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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Introspection is the precondition of an intellectual life, and solitude is the precondition of introspection

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The ability to engage in introspection, I put it to my students that day, is the essential precondition for living an intellectual life, and the essential precondition for introspection is solitude.

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The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers

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The system forgot to teach them, along the way to the prestige admissions and the lucrative jobs, that the most important achievements can’t be measured by a letter or a number or a name. It forgot that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.

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Being an intellectual is not the same as being smart

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But being an intellectual is not the same as being smart. Being an intellectual means more than doing your homework.

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An elite education gives the chance to be rich but takes away the valuable chance not to be

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An elite education gives you the chance to be rich—which is, after all, what we’re talking about—but it takes away the chance not to be. Yet the opportunity not to be rich is one of the greatest opportunities with which young Americans have been blessed.

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An elite education can leave people unable to talk to those who are not like them

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The first disadvantage of an elite education, as I learned in my kitchen that day, is that it makes you incapable of talking to people who aren’t like you.

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