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Creativity, craftsmanship and aesthetic expression are surely ends in themselves. We should not forget that. But even while they are ends in themselves, they serve purpose of re-focusing mind on something other than day-to-day cares.

If you are fighting good fight on a daily basis, and you take up, for example, woodworking, you have little choice but to solely concentrate on woodworking when you are doing it. If your focus slips, you might not only ruin your project, you might lose a finger. The point being, this re-focus will have a rejuvenating effect on you and will in turn do wonders for your “real” career.

Taking up an art or a craft at this point in your life also fulfills that unique masculine virtue of learning, of charging forward, of incrementally expanding your dominion over world, pushing your boundaries, living without fear, paralysis and boredom. Men should know how to do things, lots of things. They should constantly learn, create, expand – and teach.

As General Patton often remarked, “I don’t want to hear anything about holding your ground. We must advance!”

I recently had a party conversation with a psychiatrist who explained that it is a demonstrable scientific fact that if an adult takes up music for first time, brain will literally begin to show activity in areas which were previously underutilized. I don’t know about you, but I think using more of my brain seems like a pretty good idea!

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If, people like you had stuck to rules women would still be living a restricted life. If, people like you had stuck to rules men and women would still be living together in a ‘pretend marriage´ rather than face facts that their relationship doesn’t work. School children would still be passive and expected to repeat everything teacher said. Divorced women would still be shunned by society. There would still be a lack of opportunity for have nots to develop their abilities.

When you look around you can see many successful people who didn’t conform to rules.

Imagine Dali sticking to rules. Would you go to see his art?

Imagine if Elvis Presley had stayed within rules. Where would we be now?

Henry Ford broke rules and produced cars on a production line.

Bill Gates broke rules by believing that every household could have a computer.

Steve Jobs broke rules and gave us Apple.

Martin Luther King broke rules and gave us a different way of living.

Just stop for a minute. Think of someone, either alive or dead, you admire.

What is it about them you like?

When we did this, all people in our list had tremendous courage. They all stood up for what they believed in. They all broke accepted rules of day to give us a better world to live in.

In our experience rule bound behaviour stifles growth. Rule bound behaviour stifles individual.

Are you a person who plays by rules or are you living by your values and making world a better place to live in?

Good Luck

Graham and Julie www.desktop-meditation.com