"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."
Today's Question
The same feedback can feel like a wound one day and a hint the next. What small habit of yours makes the difference?
The Author of Brave New World Was Once Nearly Blind?
Aldous Huxley grew up in a distinguished scientific family as the grandson of biologist Thomas Henry Huxley, the champion of Darwin's theory. He is best known for Brave New World (1932), a sharp vision of how technology might reshape human freedom.
At sixteen, an eye infection left him nearly blind for about eighteen months, forcing him to give up his dream of becoming a doctor. He got through it by learning Braille, and the experience ended up steering him toward writing.