"As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home."
-Jack Kornfield

30 December 2012

The Professional Mentality



From a string of recent, excellent articles from The Atlantic, a line from "Gods Surgeons in Africa," discussing the training and equipping of surgeons in Sub Saharan Africa, and the immediate connection to the areas of all civil servants, and the strong cross-disciplinary connections to incentives, both on the surface level, and their deeper, psychological connotations:

""The professional mentality that you and I talk about is a luxury that exists only if you have enough money to allow people to dedicate themselves to certain things and certain principles."