The Moral Vision
All the Blood of One’s Body
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he did so by lying on his study floor with his feet up
so that the blood ran to his head.”
Dirac’s answer might appear tongue-in-cheek, but
in fact what he said was quite true. Great
intellectual feats can only be accomplished by
letting all the blood of one’s body run to one’s
head—by channelling all one’s energy into the
intellectual pursuit one had undertaken.
Few people actually do this. They rather tend to
diversify their efforts. Their failure to concentrate
on a single goal renders all their efforts incomplete
and ineffective. Every worthwhile task demands all
the strength that an individual can muster. The only
way to be successful in one’s work is to give it all
one has.
