Am indebted to BizNews tribesman Simon Ellis for a cutting from my Money Meandering column of a decade back for The Watch, our native on a standard basis newspaper whereas we farmed in the KZN Midlands. This one became written quickly after I’d interviewed SA’s renowned novelist Wilbur Smith, 78 and “feeling immortal”, then serene on the high of his game.
Smith, who passed away three weeks ago, told me he had a regimen of working in actuality laborious at a e book for six months and then rewarding himself with a two 300 and sixty five days spoil the put he went “salmon fishing in Russia and Iceland; dove taking pictures in South The US; and following the classical tune circuit in Europe.”
Worth repeating his answer to my question about the secret of his success: “Know your self. Know what you’re able to and don’t try the rest that you just know on your heart of hearts is beyond your God-given skills. But must you live it, live it with all of your heart and soul. And realise it’s no longer going to be an in a single day success. You could possibly possibly must keep on with it. You could possibly possibly must preserve to it till it occurs.”
In other phrases: self-diagnosis, persistence and tenacity. RIP oh wise one.
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Cyril Ramaphosa: The Audio Biography
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