Because we are beings of mind and body, all of our productive work involves both ― both thought and physical action. But the proportion of the one versus the other can be very different, depending on the nature of the work. In his study of early American expansion, The Winning of the West, Theodore Roosevelt observed: “The life of the…
“That unequaled spirit of enterprise, which signalizes the genius of the American merchants and navigators, and which is in itself an inexhaustible mine of national wealth.” So said Alexander Hamilton in Federalist 11. Referring to what he observed in the producers of his time and place, his comment also describes many producers around the world today. Perhaps most interestingly, he…