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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Today I blitzed a gold-rated Sudoku

"Jim," I said to a friend and colleague at work, "something really wonderful happened this morning. More often than not, when I attempt a gold-rated Sudoku, I give up before I manage to solve it. But this morning—"
    "What do you mean, a gold-rated Sudoku?"
    I explained that different suppliers use different rating systems for easy, moderate, hard. "There's the 1-2-3-4 rating system, for example, and the bronze-silver-gold system."
    Jim nodded his understanding.
    "Anyway, this morning I did this gold-rated Sudoku about as quickly as I've ever done a bronze or a 1."
    I said, "Now, I figure that this means one of two things."
    "At least," Jim said.
    "Right. It means either that they mis-categorized the Sudoku, and it was really a bronze, or—" I made fists, drew up my arms, and wiggled my body like a football player after scoring a touchdown. "Or I'm really clicking today!"
    "And, of course, you're going to go with the second possibility."
    "You know I am, Jim. How empowering that is! If that's what it means, then today I can succeed in my most difficult tasks, I can—"
    "But doesn't this call for you to carefully consider which difficult task you ought to focus on? You don't want to waste today's brilliance on a relatively unimportant goal."
    "Jim! You're a brilliant consultant! Of course, you're right."
    "Maybe you shouldn't be here at work today. Maybe you should—"
    "Maybe I should look at my life goals and choose something that could make a much bigger difference in my life than anything I might do here at work today?"
    "Exactly."

Is it true, then, as it appears, that producing a self-satisfying daily blog post might be one of my main life goals?

2 comments:

  1. Yes, and thematically apt, given some of my own apparent life goals (improving my Sudoku-solving technique, blogging, watching movies and TV programs, adding entries to my list of books read,...).

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