Brainsparker 2022-09-03

Isn't this the history of science and the advancement of the human race? Naturally, I go to science since I come from a STEM background, but I am sure that others would have slightly different answers.

My immediate eaction is to tell this to any young adult you come into contact with and don't let them forget it. This is probabely why I pursued an academic career - and I carried this message for 37 years.

I never heard of Szollose before this quote. Apparently he does leadership training "for cross-generational workforces" - boy, if that doesn't sound like code to me. Probably just enough code to get him around the ADA and the Dept of Labor.

Anyways, the basic principle here is to combine two things that are relative opposites. We have already seen this in Fritz's Shiritori game.

It would be a challenge to see how to do this concisely. I immediately jump to outdoor scenes, where the setting changes as a function of the position of the sun overhead. For that matter, the same principle applies to indoor scenes that are well lit, where the sunlight radiates in through the windows. In sum, a changing setting depends largely on the solar cycle.

Don't we all face obstacles in life? Some small, some large. When we are young, I think we assume the small obstacles are large. It is our job as parents to put all of this in perspective to help our kids manage obstacles.

For example, I am reading the 6-volume "My Struggle" by Karl Ove Knausgaard. The work chronicles his life in a Proustian way - I am in volume 3 of 6. One clearly sees obstacles at age 13 and 33 and how we deal with them differently, but also, how we deal with them similarly relying on behaviors we learned in our family of origin.