Why You Should Tilt at Windmills (and Other Quixotic Reflections) (excerpt)
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Why You Should Tilt at Windmills (and Other Quixotic Reflections) (excerpt)
How changing the metaphors we use can change the way we think | Aeon Essays
Benjamin Santos Gentaaeon.co
“the spirit of the fool.” He argued that when you start learning anything new it will make you “feel clumsy, that you’ll take literal or figurative pratfalls. There’s no way around it.”
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
Why would I care about the “way things are” if I’m actively trying to change that?
Mark Sabino • Camus and Curren$y: Why I Preach Indie
It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping your balance amid surprises, of collaborating with chance, of recognizing that there are some essential mysteries in the world and thereby a limit to calculation, to plan, to control.
Rebecca Solnit • A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Poetry and Ambition
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