The Book of Life

pages of wisdom A destructive event depends on many factors to succeed. Due to human limitations, it’s impossible to control all of them. Every destructive plan has a flaw, and it is this flaw that leads to the scheme’s failure. THE BIG STORY T ime International is a famous weekly magazine published in the United States. Each issue features a special article, displayed prominently on the front page and known as the cover story. In the June 8, 1992, issue of Time, on page 2 under the section titled “From the Publisher,” there’s a half-page note. It explains that writing a cover story for the Time is regarded as writing the big story, a goal every journalist dreams of: “Every journalist dreams of working on the big story.” For journalists, writing the big story or reporting on a major event is a dream—a source of personal joy. Time reporter Ed Magnuson described it as “real pleasure.” But there is another class of people who write the big story not for personal joy, but for self-display. They want to write the big story so that their own names shine brighter than others. This is the class of leaders. It is not objectionable if a journalist writes the big story for his personal joy. But when a leader does it for self-