ABSTRACT
Take it easy. This may be the only place you’ll hear this advice this lifetime-except from Sheraton Hotels, when you will rush to vacation taking with you, your laptop, e-mail, voice mail, cell phone, and type A cholesterol. The Greeks would have said “measure in all things-excess in nothing.” Ancient advice perhaps even more important today, a couple of thousand years later. Practicing general semantics by keeping perspective and staying attached to the realities of life and the market will help you take it easy. . Perhaps you, like so many of us, were trained in the hard tradition that if you want to amount to anything you have to strive for perfection. Parents and teachers have held up before us the ideal of making every moment count, hitching one’s wagon to a star, getting to the top. Congressmen have sounded off about the indomitable spirit of enterprise. We have been exposed to directives and precepts about how to do something called succeed.
