Now, another facet of the mystery of memories comes from what was the kids story on Sunday Morning. Here the children were asked to imagine where they might be, or wanted to be, in ten years time. A variation on “what do you want to be when you grow up”.
Philosophical
Creating Memories
Its not lost on me that as I write about creating memories I am, at that very time, creating memories – I have no idea whether they are memories that will persist or whether within a very short time they will – like the vast majority of memories be completely forgotten – or, perhaps more scarily, whether they will be changed in some way that I have not foreseen.
Memories – Story Telling
I couldn’t help making the connection between the theme of the meeting and something that I heard on TV a couple of days ago.
Memories
I expect that if I checked back every single post in this blog has been triggered by something quite specific – even if the posts themselves are only referring obliquely to that trigger. This post is certainly no exception. Anyone who has read the other posts will realise that the way we ‘see’ the world is something that is important in my own personal weltanschauung and that is, at least partially – perhaps fully – shaped by our memories and experiences.
Doing And Fixing
As someone who is, by nature, destined to ponder on “why” it is no real surprise that I often find myself analysing my own thought processes – certainly a road to eternal recursion – thinking about thinking about thinking about….
On Encouraging Serendipity
There is a discussion on LinkedIn at present about the inadequacies of the “linkedIn format” when it comes to what I shall term “constructive discourse” – by that I mean that something is “created” as a result of the discussion.
On Being Helpful
Helping is difficult – we have all seen the joke about the boy scout helping the old woman across the road – with the denouement that she didn’t actually want to cross it in the first place. In ‘real life’ not only do we find situations exactly analogous to that, but we also find that the ‘old woman’ simply resents the fact that she had to be helped.
On Endings
Are there any endings that we really want to happen? Even the best endings – the climax of a wonderful piece of music, the last page of a rivetting book – leave us in some way ‘sad’. When we have been enjoying something good, the fact that it has ended will – no matter how much pleasure it has afforded us – inevitably bring with it at least a tinge of disappointment. Indeed it may well be the case that the better the thing is, the more we feel a “loss” at its conclusion.
What Is Going To Happen Tomorrow
Wouldn’t it be awful if we knew! Yes, there are some things that we can say will (almost certainly) happen – but for the most part tomorrow is a mystery – and all of our tomorrows after that! I may be wrong, but if we knew everything that was ever going to happen in advance it would take all the fun out of each and every experience.
Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
The first ‘serious’ book I have read for a while – have had the book for a few months and just started to read it. Sometimes new ideas are difficult to grasp – but for me the central idea of this book is “obvious”. I put that in quotes because it is only obvious because of other things I have read/experienced/thought over the years. Taleb’s style may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but I quite enjoy reading him.