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Saturday’s essay on healthy selfishness is personal. It is based on Drs. Rachael and Richard Hellers’ book of the same name. Their subtitle is Getting the Life You Deserve Without the Guilt (Meredith Books, 2006), and it answers a question this writer is often asked, “How do you deal with the life of solitude that writing demands?” If you are an artist, a poet, a musician, or pursue any craft or talent that requires a great deal of alone time, then you will appreciate this essay. You will also know how healthy selfishness works in producing effective, efficient, and productive human beings.

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Saturday Essay - April 5, 2008
Healthy Selfishness Contributes to Being Effective, Efficient, and Productive
by Richard L. Weaver II

Excerpt:
Let me personalize healthy selfishness. For me, there is both peace and contentment in living and working with my ideas. Someone recently asked me if — looking back on it — I felt good about my choice of writing over teaching. That is, I gave up teaching entirely to be able to write full time. Peace and contentment arise from being your own boss, making your own choices and decisions, establishing your own deadlines and time frames, and using all your own tools and abilities applied to something you love to do. Such peace and contentment is empowering.
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