As I sit here at a chess table in front of a roaring fire looking out of the window of an old English country house over frosty lawns with wild geese wandering around and a wintry lake I am reminded that we should always aspire if not to greatness at least to doing better – we should seek inspiration in our daily lives.
I am on our once every six months weekend retreat to a Champneys health spa, which is a great time and place to take stock and recharge batteries and also put things in perspective.
It is so easy in the pressures of day to day professional life just to accept mediocrity or to think that everything is ordinary. Never to raise your eyes above the mundane and look to higher more inspiring standards.
The law for example is not just about getting the better of an opponent in contract negotiation of litigation. It is founded on greater things, setting the foundation for commercial and personal society. Henry VIII’s Chancellor Sir Thomas More in a conversation said: And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?
And medicine despite all our travails with the National Health Service in the UK is a noble profession that saves and enriches lives. Paracelsus the Swiss physician and alchemist who was one of the most influential medical scientists in early modern Europe said as long ago as the sixteenth century Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
We should I suggest seek to inspire and to be inspired by things greater than the ordinary in our working lives. This Harvard Business School article explains “Why Inspiration Matters”: In a culture obsessed with measuring talent and ability, we often overlook the important role of inspiration. Inspiration awakens us to new possibilities by allowing us to transcend our ordinary experiences and limitations.
I am on our once every six months weekend retreat to a Champneys health spa, which is a great time and place to take stock and recharge batteries and also put things in perspective.
It is so easy in the pressures of day to day professional life just to accept mediocrity or to think that everything is ordinary. Never to raise your eyes above the mundane and look to higher more inspiring standards.
The law for example is not just about getting the better of an opponent in contract negotiation of litigation. It is founded on greater things, setting the foundation for commercial and personal society. Henry VIII’s Chancellor Sir Thomas More in a conversation said: And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?
And medicine despite all our travails with the National Health Service in the UK is a noble profession that saves and enriches lives. Paracelsus the Swiss physician and alchemist who was one of the most influential medical scientists in early modern Europe said as long ago as the sixteenth century Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
We should I suggest seek to inspire and to be inspired by things greater than the ordinary in our working lives. This Harvard Business School article explains “Why Inspiration Matters”: In a culture obsessed with measuring talent and ability, we often overlook the important role of inspiration. Inspiration awakens us to new possibilities by allowing us to transcend our ordinary experiences and limitations.
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