We obviously do not postpone doing everything. We may procrastinate in our personal but not our professional life, do things for ourselves but not others, start certain activities but not stop others. We need to specify the problem and gain greater understanding of it by identifying the conditions under which procrastination occurs. Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your sea-faring soul. Syrian poet, mystic Seek for truth in the groves of Academe.
Roman poet Seek for truth in the groves of Academe.
We might not be inclined to take the advice of a Roman poet who lived nearly two thousand years ago, but those who have immersed themselves in his poetry come to know and love Horace as a man of good reason with a passion for living and learning from life. She calls it wisdom. We can call it motivation. To borrow Gibran s metaphor, Horace s reason and passion were the rudder and sails that led him to the groves of academe. While our discussion of motivation in Chapters 7 and 8 was much less poetic, this metaphor reflects the principles of motivation laid out in that chapter and the spirit of the pages that conclude this text.