When I first went to college (it was in 1944, while the war was still on), I spent a fair amount of time trying to figure out what I wanted to do, and even more time trying to guess if I could do it. Some people say I’m a quick study, but it took me a good fifteen years to work up the answers. If you are in your sophomore year and don’t have your own solutions yet, I’d encourage you to reflect that it doesn’t always pay to be too fast in replying to important problems. The kids who sit at their desks with their hands in the air often don’t know what the question is all about.
“What is success?” That’s one of the questions that I asked people in the first linguistic interviews I put together. One man told me that it’s figuring out what you want to do, and then getting someone to pay you to do it. Another man said it’s making use of everything that ever happened to you. I like both ways of defining it, but I usually look at it another way: if you get to be 70 years old, and you can look back without feeling that you've wasted your time, you’ve been successful. Reflecting on how I got into the field of linguistics, and what I’ve been doing since, I seem to have been following all three ideas the same time, so they may turn out to be the same idea after all.
When I first went to college (it was in 1944, while the war was still on), I spent a fair amount of time trying to figure out what I wanted to do, and even more time trying to guess if I could do it. Some people say I’m a quick study, but it took me a good fifteen years to work up the answers. If you are in your sophomore year and don’t have your own solutions yet, I’d encourage you to reflect that it doesn’t always pay to be too fast in replying to important problems. The kids who sit at their desks with their hands in the air often don’t know what the question is all about.“What is success?” That’s one of the questions that I asked people in the first linguistic interviews I put together. One man told me that it’s figuring out what you want to do, and then getting someone to pay you to do it. Another man said it’s making use of everything that ever happened to you. I like both ways of defining it, but I usually look at it another way: if you get to be 70 years old, and you can look back without feeling that you've wasted your time, you’ve been successful. Reflecting on how I got into the field of linguistics, and what I’ve been doing since, I seem to have been following all three ideas the same time, so they may turn out to be the same idea after all.
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