"Remember that to change your mind and to follow someone's correction are consistent with a free will. For the action is yours alone to fulfill its purpose in keeping with your impulse and judgment, and yes, with your intelligence."-MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 8.16
("마음을 바꾸고 누군가의 교정을 따르는 것은 자유 의지와 일치하는 것입니다. 행동은 오직 당신의 것이며, 당신의 충동과 판단, 그리고 지성에 따라 그 목적을 이루기 위해 수행하는 것입니다." - 마르쿠스 아우렐리우스, 《명상록》 8.16)
When you set your mind to a task, do you always follow through? It's an impressive feat if you do. But don't let yourself become a prisoner of that kind of determination. That asset might become a liability someday.
Conditions change. New facts come in. Circumstances arise. If you can't adapt to them-if you simply proceed onward, unable to adjust according to this additional information-you are no better than a robot. ...
