ZEAL FOR PLANNING
AN INDIVIDUAL TWIST. The modern zeal for planning was given an individual twist by Lord Meston, Chancellor of Aberdeen University, in an address to students. He said: “What, then, of planning one’s life? There are cheerful souls who manage to drift through life, propelled by winds of chance and waves of fortune. Most of us, however, feel the advantages of a chart and a course and definite ports of call. And by a plan of life I mean not only the choice of a calling or profession, but the establishment of certain objectives, in the matter, for example, of specialisation, of reading or travel, of the use of holidays, and similar incidents of life and its work. I can assure you that you will find a plan a valuable and a treasured possession. It must also be a very secret and private possession. And don’t be too long in starting to put it into operation. Mommsen published his great history of Rome before he was 40 years old. Acton, who was a greater historian than Mommsen, thought so long over his monumental work that he never wrote it at all. Plan, therefore, even on broad lines, and plan while you are young. Try out your plan so far as you can and as soon as you can. And let all your plans have a place for the helping and the understanding of others.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 June 1938, Page 8
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