"As is frequently the case with work in architecture, work on philosophy is actually closer to working on oneself.
But of course, as this book so ably demonstrates, it is much easier to expect change from others than to work on transforming oneself.
What is new here is the finding that prior work experience can exert a positive influence on the propensity to work for oneself.
The ability to work for oneself, and manage one's own hours, was also a clear incentive.
The lesson is always some trite sentence about working on oneself and not being dependent on anyone else for happiness.
She asks, "Why spend so much time working on oneself when there is so much real work to be done?" By "real work," she means, for example, political activism; her main problem with positive thinking is that it does nothing to advance the project of political reform that she espouses, and might even retard it.
Staging is a field open to experimentation, research, technical improvement and to this work on oneself.
The training is also connected to the work on oneself.
So one has to work out for oneself what, if any, bearing his explorations of the workings of language have on the ideas of Plato, Descartes, or Kant.
One has to work very hard on oneself to believe in mankind, in order to trust someone, in order to believe in having a future, in wanting to have children.
A key skill of the sport psychologist is thus the ability to build trust and rapport among the athletes and their coaches, and this relies on good communication skills and of course the ability to work within a team oneself.
