Saved by Jake and
This is Water by David Foster Wallace (Full Transcript and Audio)
That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.
What it is, as far as I can see, is the capital-T Truth, with a whole lot of rhetorical niceties stripped away. None of this stuf
... See more
Lillian Sheng and added
sari and added
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
amazon.com
Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.... See more
David Foster Wallace,
Nix 🕊 • carry yourself lightly
Douglas Woods and added
David Foster Wallace, in his popular “This Is Water” commencement address at Kenyon College in Ohio in 2005, said, “Learning how to think really means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you wil
... See more