The present political campaign reminds us that we tend to spend too much time talking and not enough time working. Much of your time is going to be spent plotting your course and making sure your boat doesn't flounder. Any work that is enjoyed is self-development. When you get into something new and learn to handle it, look it over, wrestle with it, to open up an entire wave of excitement within yourself. It's the excitement of discovery.
All explorers know it.
They're filled at once with dread of what's around the corner, and the joy of discovering it. I don't like talking about where I'm going until I've been there. In that sense, the explorer of old was in a fortunate position because no one asked him where he was really going or what he sought to discover until he got back from his travels. So opens The Secret Life of Plants by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, who document in their book the wisdom of earlier botanists and the startling discoveries of contemporary scientists which have brought the plant world sharply back to the attention of mankind. Plants are constantly preoccupied with bending, turning, and quivering.