I suppose, out of the 7-1/2 habits that a lifelong learner supposedly cultivates, the one I have the most trouble with is "beginning with the end in sight." As the author I'm currently reading, Richard Powers, says (in Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance) of Henry Ford's Peace Ship at the outbreak of WWI -- "Ford's action, however culpable or laudable, followed in a long tradition of Ships of Fools--the metaphor of humanity as a mixed, unseaworthy lot adrift on the ocean with no rudder or compass and only a dim idea as destination..."
Yup, that would be me.
