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Gone are the days when your employability depended
primarily on your job history, your school ties, your con-
nections, your family, or your seniority. Today your em-
ployability depends on one thing—your current skills.
And those skills are completely under your control.
This is the new frontier. And where we once entered
retirement age nervous about the “wolves at our door,”
today, with a commitment to lifelong growth through
learning, we can be as useful to the world community as
we are motivated to be.
The more we learn about the future, the more moti-
vated we become to be a valuable part of it.
59. Upgrade your old habits
Super motivation is much more difficult to achieve
when we are held back mentally by bad habits. Trying
to move toward the life we want while dragging along
our bad habits was described in the Scottish rock group
Del Amitri’s song lyrics, “It’s like driving with the brakes
on, it’s like swimming with your boots on...”
But here’s the catch: Bad habits simply cannot be
broken. Nor can they be gotten rid of. Ask the millions
who continue to try. They always end up, in the words
of Richard Brautigan, “trying to shovel mercury with a
pitchfork,” because our bad habits exist for good rea-
sons. They’re there to do something for us, even if that
something ends up being self-destructive. Down deep,
even a bad habit is trying to make us operate better.
People who smoke are trying, even through their
addiction, to do something beneficial—perhaps to
breathe deeply and relax. Such breathing is needed to
balance stress, so their smoking is a way in which they
are trying to make themselves better. Bad habits are