smashing rocks to find gold

let hotter heads prevail

The Book of Right Answers says:

• It is easier to destroy than to create. — Stephen King

• It is easier to break things than to make them. — Sylvia Plath

• Building something great is far more difficult than destroying something that already exists. — Unknown

The implication here?

Don’t break shit, don’t criticize.

The Book of Wrong Answers, your guide to uncivilized living has a different approach:

Break shit. Screw it up. Keep moving. The mess will sort itself out eventually.

A renovation? Break the walls, break the pipes, cut the wires, smash the tiles - you don’t get the refresh without smashing first.

If you want a pretty plate or coffee cup, break it! Then you can mend it with gold.

Speaking of gold, you only get gold by smashing rocks. It’s not like they go digging and there are just lumps of this sitting around. The process of mining for gold requires breaking rocks and sifting through the remains. The gold eventually emerges.

Working with the gold requires more than smashing though. Workin…