{"id":74840,"date":"2016-06-13T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T11:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=74840"},"modified":"2016-06-07T16:58:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T15:58:12","slug":"life-management-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/06\/life-management-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/dieter-dietrich-fischer-epu.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-68323\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/dieter-dietrich-fischer-epu-150x150.png\" alt=\"dieter dietrich fischer epu\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>A professor was giving a lecture on time management.\u00a0 He filled a mason jar with a dozen fist-sized rocks, until no more would fit.\u00a0 He asked his students,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Is this jar full?&#8221; All shouted &#8220;Yes!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Then he took some gravel from under the desk to fill the empty spaces and asked again, &#8220;Is it full now?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Some said, &#8220;Probably not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He filled the space between the gravel with sand, and finally poured water into the jar to the brim.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;What is the lesson of this?&#8221; he asked.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A student answered, &#8220;No matter how full your schedule is, if you try really hard, you can always fit one more thing into it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The professor replied, &#8220;The main lesson is that unless you put the big rocks in first, you&#8217;ll never get them in at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What are the &#8220;big rocks&#8221; in your life?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">______________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Dietrich Fischer (1941-2015) from M\u00fcnsingen, Switzerland, got a Licentiate in Mathematics from the University of Bern 1968 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University 1976. 1986-88 he was a MacArthur Fellow in International Peace and Security at Princeton University. He has taught mathematics, computer science, economics and peace studies at various universities and been a consultant to the United Nations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Excerpted from Dietrich Fischer&#8217;s <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tup\/index.php?book=44\" >Stories to Inspire You<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tup\/index.php?book=44\" > &#8211; TRANSCEND University Press-TUP<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A professor was giving a lecture on time management.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}