Is anyone familiar with Tom Lehrer? He’s the humorous pianist from the 50’s and 60’s who wrote such racy (for the time) classics such as “Poisoning Pigeons in the Park” and “The Masochism Tango”.
(Let us let out a small sigh for a time when songs such as the above were considered risqué.)
One of his other, less well known songs was a salute (of sorts) to the Boy Scouts, in the song “Be Prepared”. Witness:
Be prepared! That's the Boy Scouts' solemn creed
Be prepared! And be clean in word and deed
Don't solicit for your sister, that's not nice
Unless you get a good percentage of her price
Be prepared! And be careful not to do
Your good deeds when there's no one watching you
I confess that I can’t think of the phrase “be prepared” without thinking of the (now re-titled) Scouts, and I can’t think of the Scouts without thinking of Tom Lehrer.
And it turns out that a tenet of right-sizing your relationship to technology, whether on not you’ve gone full smartphone-free, involves preparation.
So let’s talk about what it means to be prepared, and how it reduce your reliance on technology and help you be more present.
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