Pershing’s expedition into Mexico after Villa had exploded one of our myths for a little while. We had truly believed that Mexicans can’t shoot straight and besides were lazy and stupid.

Doing what you love is passion.
Doing what you don't love is stress.

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Modernity, in other words, was not a sociological process—moving from “traditional” to “modern” society—but a geopolitical process: a matter of acquiring what it took to join the great powers, or fall victim to them.47

Written By Stephen Kotkin

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