Who among us does n’t have a rocky solar day from metre to time ? You sleep with the type of day I ’m speak about . That wearisome sort of solar day . The variety of Clarence Day where card , inspiration and motivation are all reached for in earnest , only to be found in equally short supply .
Well , perhaps you ’ll take as much comfort as I did in stepping back and think back that even the most gifted among us have days that experience bleak , wearisome and uninspired . “ day when they feel dumb,”as NPR ’s Robert Krulwich set it . “ Really , really dim . ”
On October 1 , 1861 , Charles Darwin was having precisely such a day , when he indite to friend and fellow scientist Charles Lyell the run-in you see up top . “ I am very badly today and very stupid and detest everybody and everything . One lives only to make blunders . ” ( It bears mentioning that Darwin penned these words just two years after the unusually successful publication of On the Origin of Species . )
We ’re not make merry in Darwin ’s sentiments , here . We mean only to prompt you that even the brightest among us have crummy days . judge to recollect that the next time your mental capacity just does n’t seem to be working — that all the direction back in 1861 , Charles Darwin , of all mass , was scribbling bitingly at a sheet of parchment , feeling the exact same thing .
Read more on Darwin ’s “ frightening , atrocious , No Good , Very spoilt Day ” — including scans of the original letters , written in Darwin ’s hand — over atKrulwich Wonders .
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