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When we leave this world, we will ask ourselves one
question: What’s different? What’s different because I
was here? And the answer to that question will be the
difference that we made.
All of our thoughts and feelings won’t matter any
more when we are on our deathbeds asking that ques-
tion. What will matter is the action we took and the
difference that it made.
Yet we continue to obsess about our thoughts and
become fascinated with our feelings. We are offended
by other people. We want to prove we are right. We
make other people wrong. We are disappointed in some
people and resent others. It goes on and on and none of
it will matter on that deathbed.
Action will be all that matters.
We could have made a difference every hour, every
day, if we had wanted to.
So how do we do that? How do we motivate ourselves
to get into action? How do we live a life of action and
difference-making?
Aristotle knew the answer.
In the original preface to the original edition of this
book, Aristotle gave the answer. The answer lies in
motion. The answer lies in movement.
So what follows is the original snow angel preface
to the original edition of the book. It’s re-dedicated to
everyone who has written to me about it:
When I was a child growing up in Michigan, we
used to make angels in the snow.
We would find a fresh, untouched patch of snow
and lie on our backs in it. Then, flapping our arms,
we’d leave the impression of wings in the snow. We
would then get up and admire our work. The two