How that String Quartet Kept Up the Entrepreneurial Spirit While the Titanic Sank.
How that String Quartet Kept Up the Entrepreneurial Spirit While the Titanic Sank. Negativity is a drug, my friends. It’s so easy to slip into a Grinch-like miserableness when you start dwelling on everything that’s wrong with the world. BUT—this post is about finding a way to channel whatever those string players on the Titanic found deep within themselves the night the ship went down. Sure, maybe they were devout believers in “thou must play the whole set,” but I like to think they chose to focus on their truest love: music. I once found my mom’s Grade 6 Essex yearbook from the late ’60s or early ’70s. It was filled with poetry, short stories, and opinion pieces… wild to think kids that age were submitting personal essays when kids these days can barely hold a pen, let alone write! Now that I’ve completed the obligatory “crotchety old man complains about the youths” portion of this post… back to the yearbook. One student wrote an opinion piece about the...