'Tis the season for breaks from regular office routine, including such exciting alternatives as dreary parties, team-building events, and "professional development" days. Rather than getting into the inherent pointlessness of any of these, I'll let this example do the illustrating:
A motivational speaker at a recent out-of-office day-long seminar was going on about the importance of renewal. He claimed that sleep was the perfect way to renew oneself, and offered the following quote as proof, claiming Shakespeare, who was truly a genius, even then knew the importance of getting enough sleep:
To sleep, perchance to dream
Hamlet (III, i)
'Course, maybe he should have kept reading (although I have the feeling he still wouldn't get it):
To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come...
And the best part? Everyone there thought this motivational speaker was brilliant. They loved everything he had to say and have been going on about it ever since, they were just that inspired.
Anyone got a poison-tipped sword handy?
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