Sweet, thanks for posting this.
I read that again recently. Lived in Buffalo for 22 years and had many fine meals at the http://www.roycroftinn.com/. I’ve often thought we need another American Arts and Crafts Movement.
I read this slim volume a few months back and it is more true today than when he penned it years ago. Too bad Mr. Hubbard went down with the Lusitania.
I got some great advice from my first “real” boss. She said, “the first only only thing you have to do each day is, ‘Find out what your boss wants and do it.’”
Best advice I ever got.
This was a standard requirement for Midshipmen to read (and nearly recite) when I went through in the late 80s. I actually put it in some of my cover letters when I was looking for a job over the last 6 months. I was actually suprised at the number of HR folks that asked me what it meant... but then I’ve been insulated in some regards from the PC crap over the years. I found it was refreshing to actually spend time with them explaining the ideas and concepts that were buried in this small tome from 100+ years ago. I discovered I was happy when one of them would say “I think I’ll have to go look this one up and read it myself, you’ve really stretched my boundaries” or something to that effect.
I’ve since found a position (though i’ll admit “A Message to Garcia” wasn’t involved). I’d like to think that the reason I’m employed today is that my employers realized in some way that I live the concept of getting things done despite the adversity presented. The plight of man is not to succumb, but to persevere and by so doing provide glory to God in whom’s image we were made.
Go Navy, Beat Army USNA ‘89
1. Show up (top 10%)
2. Perform (top 0.1%)
It is surprisingly easy to stand out.
I used to have a little specially bound old copy of that publication.
I always cherished it. I don’t know where I lost it along the way.
Thanks.
A good read so I look up this authore and find this,
“Hubbard described himself as an anarchist and a socialist.[6] He believed in social, economic, domestic, political, mental and spiritual freedom.[7] In A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things (1901), Hubbard explained his Credo by writing “I believe John Ruskin, William Morris, Henry Thoreau, Walt Whitman and Leo Tolstoy to be Prophets of God, and they should rank in mental reach and spiritual insight with Elijah, Hosea, Ezekiel and Isaiah.”[8]
Hubbard wrote a critique of war, law and government in the booklet Jesus Was An Anarchist (1910). Originally published as The Better Part in A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things, Ernest Howard Crosby described Hubbard’s essay as “The best thing Elbert ever wrote.”[9]”
This piece reads as common sense conservative today. Has the, “left” really moved this far? I know, I know...