Face it: Because of your busy schedule and multiple concerns, you don’t have time to create formats. Using templates shortens tasks. Anyway, there are so many templates for so many tasks that superimposing your work on a ready-made template is an acceptable form of plagiarism. Need to make a calendar? Look online for a free template. Want to graph your expenses? Again, online stuff does the trick. Trying to devise a clever and colorful report for school or work? With thousands of templates available, what are the chances that anyone has ever seen or used the template you choose?
We belong to a template-driven planet. That’s why I recognize you as a human, and it’s also why I recognize your relationship to all life. Life shares some common templates within DNA. But, let me give you some credit here. Your DNA is a template that no one else, save an identical twin, uses. Yes, parents stamped out the template from which your copy came, but once that template was made, it became yours and no one else’s. There’s something unique about that template, and no future template will be its exact copy. But that’s just a physical matter. In that special template, the one peculiar to you, you have a tool for your life’s work, the point of departure for that part of your life that isn’t merely the product of a physical mold.
Templates for reports save time and add some organization to the reports. They are not, however, the stuff of the report any more than a chalkboard is the stuff of a lecture. You are always in the process of making a presentation. The fundamental template is beyond your control. It was there from the get-go. But the template isn’t the presentation.
I can’t wait to see your presentation today.
We belong to a template-driven planet. That’s why I recognize you as a human, and it’s also why I recognize your relationship to all life. Life shares some common templates within DNA. But, let me give you some credit here. Your DNA is a template that no one else, save an identical twin, uses. Yes, parents stamped out the template from which your copy came, but once that template was made, it became yours and no one else’s. There’s something unique about that template, and no future template will be its exact copy. But that’s just a physical matter. In that special template, the one peculiar to you, you have a tool for your life’s work, the point of departure for that part of your life that isn’t merely the product of a physical mold.
Templates for reports save time and add some organization to the reports. They are not, however, the stuff of the report any more than a chalkboard is the stuff of a lecture. You are always in the process of making a presentation. The fundamental template is beyond your control. It was there from the get-go. But the template isn’t the presentation.
I can’t wait to see your presentation today.
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