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Em M. Lenartowicz
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“for the only way to succeed is to decline to admit the possibility of failure.”
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“The editor is always right.” The corollary is that no writer will take all of his or her editor’s advice; for all have sinned and fallen short of editorial perfection. Put another way, to write is human, to edit is divine.”
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“Sure it’s simple, writing for kids. Just as simple as bringing them up. All you do is take all the sex out, and use little short words, and little dumb ideas, and don’t be too scary, and be sure there’s a happy ending. Right? Nothing to it. Write down. Right on. If you do all that, you might even write Jonathan Livingston Seagull and make twenty billion dollars and have every adult in America reading your book. But you won’t have every kid in America reading your book. They will look at it, and they will see straight through it, with their clear, cold, beady little eyes, and they will put it down, and they will go away. Kids will devour vast amounts of garbage (and it is good for them), but they are not like adults: they have not yet learned to eat plastic.”
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A few years before Iain McGilchrist published “The Matter with Things,” Weaver articulated an analogous philosophical system here, in the Open-Ended Intelligence, informed by the philosophy of H. Bergson, G. Deleuze, and G. Simondon. Weaver’s work aff ...more |
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Defnitely Earthsea! I would buy a farm and become Tenar & Ged's neighbour on Gont.
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The last sentence is brilliant. I have used it in many conversations since reading the book. Not to spoil the reading pleasure for anyone, I don't actually quote that sentence. Instead, I only say "the last sentence of Babel." ...more |
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“Atoms can stay. But other than that, I believe one needs to suspend most of the assumptions about the granularity of the reality that is normally invoked once you start speaking about social systems.”
― Social Systems: Where is the Ground?
― Social Systems: Where is the Ground?
“The ambition of our initiative is to mobilise a cognitive power
that we are referring to as ‘extraordinary intelligence’. As many of you – participants
of the project – have been pointing out, this ambition tends to evoke considerable
attraction and equally considerable resentment, or at least reservation. The
objections are partly ethical and political, partly cultural and psychological. When
critiqued conceptually, the phrasing also calls for a serious re-visiting of the notion
of intelligence. The ‘extraordinary’ we are after turns out to be less problematic:
the way we put it, it is a progressive, dynamic term. ‘Extraordinary’ does not come
to mean ‘greater than’, along a pre-established scale of measurement or relative
to a baseline in a population, but rather ‘greater again, and yet again’, displaying
qualities that outgrow themselves. The extraordinary intelligence would then be a
capability that continuously exceeds its own limits, proving to be more insightful,
more far-sighted and more potent than one might normally project. But what is
‘intelligence’? Clearly, we cannot be referring here to what is captured by IQ tests.
The intelligence quotient is an iconic psychometric construct and the primary feature
of such measurement methods is their reliable reference to traits that are persistent
– ideally throughout the lifetime of the individuals assessed. If our interest is in
an ever-changing, ever-growing intelligence, we cannot be applying a measure that
by its very definition seeks to trace an invariant.”
― The Practice of Thinking: Cultivating the Extraordinary
that we are referring to as ‘extraordinary intelligence’. As many of you – participants
of the project – have been pointing out, this ambition tends to evoke considerable
attraction and equally considerable resentment, or at least reservation. The
objections are partly ethical and political, partly cultural and psychological. When
critiqued conceptually, the phrasing also calls for a serious re-visiting of the notion
of intelligence. The ‘extraordinary’ we are after turns out to be less problematic:
the way we put it, it is a progressive, dynamic term. ‘Extraordinary’ does not come
to mean ‘greater than’, along a pre-established scale of measurement or relative
to a baseline in a population, but rather ‘greater again, and yet again’, displaying
qualities that outgrow themselves. The extraordinary intelligence would then be a
capability that continuously exceeds its own limits, proving to be more insightful,
more far-sighted and more potent than one might normally project. But what is
‘intelligence’? Clearly, we cannot be referring here to what is captured by IQ tests.
The intelligence quotient is an iconic psychometric construct and the primary feature
of such measurement methods is their reliable reference to traits that are persistent
– ideally throughout the lifetime of the individuals assessed. If our interest is in
an ever-changing, ever-growing intelligence, we cannot be applying a measure that
by its very definition seeks to trace an invariant.”
― The Practice of Thinking: Cultivating the Extraordinary
“The ambition of our initiative is to mobilise a cognitive power that we are referring to as ‘extraordinary intelligence’. As many of you – participants of the project – have been pointing out, this ambition tends to evoke considerable attraction and equally considerable resentment, or at least reservation. The objections are partly ethical and political, partly cultural and psychological. When critiqued conceptually, the phrasing also calls for a serious re-visiting of the notion of intelligence. The ‘extraordinary’ we are after turns out to be less problematic:
the way we put it, it is a progressive, dynamic term. ‘Extraordinary’ does not come to mean ‘greater than’, along a pre-established scale of measurement or relative to a baseline in a population, but rather ‘greater again, and yet again’, displaying qualities that outgrow themselves. The extraordinary intelligence would then be a capability that continuously exceeds its own limits, proving to be more insightful, more far-sighted and more potent than one might normally project. But what is ‘intelligence’? Clearly, we cannot be referring here to what is captured by IQ tests. The intelligence quotient is an iconic psychometric construct and the primary feature of such measurement methods is their reliable reference to traits that are persistent – ideally throughout the lifetime of the individuals assessed. If our interest is in an ever-changing, ever-growing intelligence, we cannot be applying a measure that by its very definition seeks to trace an invariant.”
― The Practice of Thinking: Cultivating the Extraordinary
the way we put it, it is a progressive, dynamic term. ‘Extraordinary’ does not come to mean ‘greater than’, along a pre-established scale of measurement or relative to a baseline in a population, but rather ‘greater again, and yet again’, displaying qualities that outgrow themselves. The extraordinary intelligence would then be a capability that continuously exceeds its own limits, proving to be more insightful, more far-sighted and more potent than one might normally project. But what is ‘intelligence’? Clearly, we cannot be referring here to what is captured by IQ tests. The intelligence quotient is an iconic psychometric construct and the primary feature of such measurement methods is their reliable reference to traits that are persistent – ideally throughout the lifetime of the individuals assessed. If our interest is in an ever-changing, ever-growing intelligence, we cannot be applying a measure that by its very definition seeks to trace an invariant.”
― The Practice of Thinking: Cultivating the Extraordinary
“Living life as an experiment is not merely a lifestyle choice. It is a metaphysical commitment to the primacy of difference over identity and of becoming over being. One’s life gains meaning in as far as it facilitates the possibility of evolution, of growth and the overcoming of limits. Life lived as an experiment becomes an expression of open-ended intelligence. Style and aesthetics do mightily matter but these are not prescribed; they need to be figured out in the course of one’s becoming. Life as an experiment is a thought experiment and an experiment in thinking. It is to think and let oneself be thought while not taking anything for granted; to be able to escape the banality of everything habitual in sense and thought. A real thought is real to the extent that it transforms the thinker.”
― Open-Ended Intelligence
― Open-Ended Intelligence
“Sleeping in the same bed and dreaming different dreams” is an old Chinese expression that describes the intimacy of partnership (whether in marriage or in business) without the communication necessary to sustain it.”
― Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It
― Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It
“But while innocent and understandable, thinking you’re normal is one of the most damaging assumptions in negotiations.”
― Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It
― Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It
“Whether it’s in the office or around the family dinner table, don’t avoid honest, clear conflict. It will get you the best car price, the higher salary, and the largest donation. It will also save your marriage, your friendship, and your family. One can only be an exceptional negotiator, and a great person, by both listening and speaking clearly and empathetically; by treating counterparts—and oneself—with dignity and respect; and most of all by being honest about what one wants and what one can—and cannot—do. Every negotiation, every conversation, every moment of life, is a series of small conflicts that, managed well, can rise to creative beauty. Embrace them.”
― Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It
― Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It
“I developed a workshop called “Steering the Craft,” focused on the glamorous aspects of writing, the really sexy stuff—punctuation, sentence length, grammar . .”
― Steering The Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story
― Steering The Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story
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