Sometimes Seth Godin’s shortest pieces are the ones that sing the most.  He had a couple of great ones this past week, one about stupidity and one about swimming.  The one about stupidity (and not being smart) is an interesting “splitting of the hairs” while the one on swimming is about more than swimming.  Turns out swimming, being in the water, flailing, is about focus and how we spend our energy.  Both are good, quick reads.

[A note on “how we spend our energy”.  This comes up often in Curt Thompson’s writings, about how much energy we expend to not deal with the things that should be dealt with and how freeing it can be to use our energy the right way.  Not an easy thing to do, but something good to be reminded of.]