Entries by tag: confidence
~ Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
About Pirsig and his book: I was made to read this book at approximately age 18, when I first started working at the Nantahala Outdoor Center in North Carolina. I was quite moldable, impressionable, unformed at that age. Payson Kennedy was in charge of training and orienting all new staff, and reading this book was his one requirement. What it taught me was a lesson that took many years to sink in, that small details deserve our full attention, that doing your best it the only way to do anything right. Thank you Payson for requiring us to read this book, for it has helped form my perspective for over 30 years since then. I think it may be time to reread it.
This of course was all brought up because Pirsig has died at the age of 88. It's encouraging to note that his book was rejected by 121 publishing houses before someone decided to print it.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/24/525443040/-zen-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance-author-robert-m-pirsig-dies-at-88
NY TIMES OPINION PIECE: MOLLY WORTHEN SAYS STOP SAYING “I FEEL LIKE”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/opinion/sunday/stop-saying-i-feel-like.html
The PC-ness and softening of modern verbal communications has results in a net loss of meaning. We can fix this, if we want. Behind the cut is a good article arguing for awareness of this one particular phrase. "I feel like" is often used to replace the words "I think", and it is not a feeling at all. Feelings, that is emotions, are quite distinct from thoughts and judgements. To be clear in our communications requires that we recognize and communicate that difference.
Action and reaction, ebb and flow,
trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living.
Out of our over-confidence, fear;
out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope.
And out of hope, progress.
~ Bruce Fairchild Barton
- Morihei Ueshiba
will not insult me,
and no man not a gentleman
CAN insult me.
---Frederick Douglas
is to find positive deviants
and give them a platform, a microphone and public praise.
--Seth Godin
--Charles Darwin
Imagine being lost in the wilderness with a group of 10. Who is the most confident about which way you should go? Always an interesting test.)
(Didn't mean to but both knowledge and confidence tags just created. Not sure I will ever stop creating new tags, sorry. Follow a parallel tag to track the idea farther back. This journal is a form of mind map.)
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