🦊 Repetition as Ritual
Rituals are tools to remind you of certain slippery-yet-critical truths.
Nathan Baschez • Book Review: Mastery
RITUAL Our problem isn’t just that we are in the habit of shirking important ideas. We are also prone to forget them immediately even if we have in theory given them our assent. For this, humanity invented ritual. Ritual can be defined as the structured repetition of important concepts, made resonant through the help of formal pageantry and
... See moreAlain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
The little prince asks the fox what a ritual is, and the fox replies: “Those also are actions too often neglected. ... They are what make one day different from other days, one hour from other hours.”