The-Slight-Edge

living the Slight Edge 175
Price to pay:
Plan to start:
One simple daily discipline:
The Slight Edge and Your Relationships
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a
piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be
washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as
if promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s
or of thine own were. Any man’s death diminishes me,
because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never
send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
— John Donne, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions
One of the great ironic truths of human existence is that no matter how
great our accomplishments, it is ultimately other people who give it meaning.
One reason that Citizen Kane continues to rank among the greatest films ever
made even today, more than sixty years after it was made, is that it makes such a
powerful statement of this truth: despite all his larger-than-life accomplishments,
his millions, his international power as king-maker and -breaker, in the final hour