I want to thank you for introducing to the concept of Eudaimonia. It inspired a sculpture I made for my mid-year exhibition last year.
This has been about the third time I’ve found myself revisiting this essay and your words. It doesn’t at all glorify or romanticise struggle but it points to the imperative notion that the discomfort of struggle is essential for growth! Thanks again!!
A piece I needed all days, especially today. I'm reading Kelly McGonigal's "The Upside of Stress" and clearly, my intuition is telling me I should spend more time being soft and pliable in the face of challenges, instead of hard. Hard becomes brittle. Brittle breaks.
Whenever I feel lost, unsure of where my life ought to go, I try to push myself out of my comfort zone. The optionality always forces growth and opens new paths, quietening the existential dread, for a while at least..
When systems are connected together...whether technical systems like power grids or entire nations and cultures......there may be great benefits, but there is also likely to be a considerable increase in fragility. See my post Coupling:
As a commenter pointed out, the benefits from interconnectedness are usually here and now, whereas the downsides are uncertain and in the future, so tend to get ignored until they make themselves un-ignorable.
This post and those thoughts came at exactly the right time for me - I love the idea of safeguarding the 1%, of learning, of feeding back to yourself to make sure we're not just continually seeking growth but actively working on it.
I want to thank you for introducing to the concept of Eudaimonia. It inspired a sculpture I made for my mid-year exhibition last year.
This has been about the third time I’ve found myself revisiting this essay and your words. It doesn’t at all glorify or romanticise struggle but it points to the imperative notion that the discomfort of struggle is essential for growth! Thanks again!!
Ooh I love that. I’d love to see the sculpture too! I’m glad my words resonated… it means a lot to me to know that, so thanks for sharing :)
A piece I needed all days, especially today. I'm reading Kelly McGonigal's "The Upside of Stress" and clearly, my intuition is telling me I should spend more time being soft and pliable in the face of challenges, instead of hard. Hard becomes brittle. Brittle breaks.
I realise now that my previous comment on your recent post (https://www.wildbarethoughts.com/p/you-cant-sustain-what-doesnt-honor/comment/131415607) about personal optimisation was precisely about antifragility, I just didn't explain it well enough.
Whenever I feel lost, unsure of where my life ought to go, I try to push myself out of my comfort zone. The optionality always forces growth and opens new paths, quietening the existential dread, for a while at least..
When systems are connected together...whether technical systems like power grids or entire nations and cultures......there may be great benefits, but there is also likely to be a considerable increase in fragility. See my post Coupling:
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/73917.html
As a commenter pointed out, the benefits from interconnectedness are usually here and now, whereas the downsides are uncertain and in the future, so tend to get ignored until they make themselves un-ignorable.
This post and those thoughts came at exactly the right time for me - I love the idea of safeguarding the 1%, of learning, of feeding back to yourself to make sure we're not just continually seeking growth but actively working on it.