Effort's Anagram

The Wisdom That Letters Let On

Shakespeare had the same 26 letters in the alphabet that we all do. It’s what you do with them that matters. —Lou Holtz

Above: You have to rest to get your best.

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If you look closely and read carefully, plain letters contain profound lessons.

Take effort as an elucidating example.

Its very essence is an anagram: you can't spell tried without tired.

Theirs is a zero-sum symbiosis.

These two words, made up of the same five letters, capture between them infinite permutations of productivity and perspiration.

Better still, there are twenty-one more.

What other lessons will you unearth in the alphabet?

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Per my about page, White Noise is a work of experimentation. I view it as a sort of thinking aloud, a stress testing of my nascent ideas. Through it, I hope to sharpen my opinions against the whetstone of other people’s feedback, commentary, and input.

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With sincere gratitude,

Tom