The Set of Your Sail
27 January 2019
There’s a 1916 poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox that contains the lines: One ship sails East,And another West,By the self-same winds that blow,‘Tis the set of the sailsAnd not the gales,That tells the way we go. The idea that it is not the direction of the wind, but the set of our sails that determines our destination on the has been popularised in recent years by Jim Rohn. The wind can be blowing favourably, in
