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Sure, you always have the choice between changing yourself or changing the experience. If you're the kind of person that can change themselves to appreciate ev
by makeitdouble 3y ago
Sure, you always have the choice between changing yourself or changing the experience.
If you're the kind of person that can change themselves to appreciate everything in life, good for you. Otherwise changing the experience (including multitasking) is a more simple approach.
- hprotagonist 3y agoAnd I submit that this is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out.
- makeitdouble 3y agoOh my, are you quoting Atomic Habits ? The "nudge" fad has long passed and your 10 min workout every day won't make you an athlete. What James Clear is really showing is that writing coaching books is the real path to success.
- hprotagonist 3y agoi am not quoting any of that
- makeitdouble 3y agoSorry I got confused. That quote might be half flying above my head, and it feels a lot like a caricature to me. I got through the original speech and it still doesn't resonate, but I'm also not a Kenyon graduate and don't share any of that background. But I appreciate having been exposed to that corner of culture.
- hprotagonist 3y agohe’s being quite genuine. perhaps tragically so, considering. being an american undergraduate has very little to do with it, or to my original point, which is that finding the transcendent in the mundane is a good idea.
- weiliddat 3y agoIt's David Foster Wallace's This is Water
- makeitdouble 3y agoThanks, I wanted to get the wider picture and completely failed to reach the original.
- weiliddat 3y agoI heard that speech when I was much younger and didn't understand it. Now, going through life in my mid-30s, not finding much "greater meaning" and trying to get through things, it's a really good reminder. Thank you
- hprotagonist 3y ago“the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.” gets me every time. from Auden: “Not to lose time, not to get caught, Not to be left behind, not, please! to resemble The beasts who repeat themselves, or a thing like water Or stone whose conduct can be predicted, these Are our common prayer, whose greatest comfort is music Which can be made anywhere, is invisible, And does not smell.”