I went to a workshop last night at The School of Life called 'How To Realise Your Potential'. It was run by a man whose vocation is writing for The Sunday Times and whose hobby is to sew his own clothes. When speaking of the latter he said: "I'm all for women breaking through the glass ceiling if they want to, but why is no one urging men to break into haberdashery shops!?" Perhaps the lesson in this statement is that if we seek to fulfill our potential we can go beyond society's expectations for our gender, race, class, sexuality etc. His point in telling us about his venture into craft was to emphasize the importance of taking pleasure in every step of whatever process with which we are engaged. He also quoted Friedrich Nietzsche on this point: "Not every end is a goal. The end of a melody is not a goal." He urged us to celebrate little victories along the way.