Ocupation: Novelist
Life: February 21, 1962 - September 12, 2008
Birthday: February 21
Death: September 12
You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard. ... How promising you are as a Student of the Game is a function of what you can pay attention to without running away.
source: David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.128, Hachette UK
topic: Running, Games, Broken, Infinite Jest