It Is A Bouquet
You probably are incapable of learning things by yourself because your school made you handicapped at self-education.
Hi there, you are reading The Busymind Project and I have just resumed posting on Mondays (mostly).
For today’s post, find attached every link to my essays since April 27. Of course, there is hardly any theme binding them together except that I had to execute mental flatulence. So reader, please enjoy. And subscribe.
Finding The Beauty In Ordinary Things:
I wrote this to organise the thoughts I had from observing my sister and her baby my niece.
In an overstimulated age, we tend to look for beauty in the most visceral and sensational places and miss the mundane instances of beauty around us. And if when our intuitions pick up this beauty in an ordinary scene, we are often poor at articulating the joys of such beauty. This essay helps to speak on that tugging feeling and train the senses to revel in ordinary things. So, enjoy.
Be Hephaestus: Find Your Forge:
The average man is not Zeus, neither is he Hermes, Apollos, Ares or whoever is gifted we can think of. Zeus was a powerful but nasty god, Hermes is a beloved trickster, and Apollos is gifted with music. So, odds are you are neither powerful, a beloved trickster or a gifted musician. The odds are that you have a glaring inadequacy. That was the case with Hephaestus. Though a god, he was not one of the ‘big boys’ of Olympus. But he would not be irrelevant because he was inadequate. He took his destiny into his hands and became someone the gods could not do without. That is why I want you to be Hephaestus: to seize your fate and prove yourself valuable to the world. Make the world worthy of you. Be Hephaestus.
The Dead Agent:
My statement in this one is simple: you probably are incapable of learning things by yourself because your school made you handicapped at self-education. Imagine needing crutches when your legs work fine. No, scratch that. Imagine lopping off your legs because you love this wheelchair.
If after going through school you still need school to learn new things, you are probably a dead agent and your school succeeded at just being too good. Check it out.
Dinner Tables Will Save The Future:
Predicting the future is hard. Forecasts do not always follow our current permutation. So, how can you prepare for a future that you do not know? Simple. Invest in things that have stood the test of time. And this essay is an instance of one thing in my life that stood the test of time and technological changes.
How dinner tables help children is unspoken of. Perhaps because it is negligible. But in hindsight, if you can see, you’d probably be able to measure its benefits. That is what I did and that is why I am banking on it to save the future emotional needs of my children. Join me in saving the future.
The Alchemist From New Hampshire
You see friend, the goal is to live as one with the world, not to live arrogantly above it. To my surprise, most intellectuals treat the world with a certain contempt as if they live above the world. And nothing signifies this contempt better than the unwillingness to live by their thoughts and work with their hands. And that is why I like Simon Sarris — he lives by his thoughts and works with his hands.
I point you, my dear reader, to his essays I find most instructive on how to live as one with the world. If you have this goal as I do, you may click, read, and enjoy the alchemist from New Hampshire.
Friday: We Abstain From Metaphors
Let us, every Friday, listen to G.K. Chesterton’s words that we should abstain from metaphors and stick to the use of abstract words and reason as this is good for intellectual digestion. Will you join me to do this? Find out how by clicking the link and reading how. Thanks.
And of course, your meme:
