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)
“Playing and goofing off is a really important aspect of keeping optimism alive.”
Maddy Lauria • Hope is not passive: How activism keeps optimism alive
But why must everything always have a practical application?
Elizabeth Gilbert • Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
“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
exactly—irony was defeatist, timid, the telltale of a generation too afraid to say what it meant, and so in danger of forgetting it had anything to say.
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
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.