Comments on: How to Embrace the Renaissance Spirit http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-to-embrace-the-renaissance-spirit/ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:44:23 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Peter http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-to-embrace-the-renaissance-spirit/comment-page-1/#comment-27069 Peter Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:29:15 +0000 http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-to-embrace-the-renaissance-spirit/#comment-27069 Thanks Jenny. Re emotional maturity: great point - I agree. Thanks Jenny.

Re emotional maturity: great point – I agree.

]]> By: Jenny http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-to-embrace-the-renaissance-spirit/comment-page-1/#comment-26834 Jenny Wed, 14 Nov 2007 04:56:05 +0000 http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-to-embrace-the-renaissance-spirit/#comment-26834 This is a great post Peter! As I read the Renaissance Ideal section I started thinking about how worthy a goal striving for our full physical and mental potential is but also mused that perhaps it is time to add emotional potential to the mix. Intellectual development without emotional maturity is often self-serving and occasionally dangerous. This is a great post Peter!

As I read the Renaissance Ideal section I started thinking about how worthy a goal striving for our full physical and mental potential is but also mused that perhaps it is time to add emotional potential to the mix. Intellectual development without emotional maturity is often self-serving and occasionally dangerous.

]]> By: Peter http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-to-embrace-the-renaissance-spirit/comment-page-1/#comment-26196 Peter Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:17:45 +0000 http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-to-embrace-the-renaissance-spirit/#comment-26196 Dark Sociologist, My suggestions to think independently - question authority and be open-minded - are designed to help a person come to their own conclusions free from bias, etc. Here is a quote from Tim Leary on the matter that I have always liked: <blockquote> Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities, the political, the religious, the educational authorities who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing, forming in our minds their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable, open-mindedness; chaotic, confused, vulnerability to inform yourself.</blockquote> In regards to how I apply these principles, I suggest checking out my blog - I write a lot about my life there. Thanks for the comment, you definitely made me do some thinking :) Peter Dark Sociologist,

My suggestions to think independently – question authority and be open-minded – are designed to help a person come to their own conclusions free from bias, etc.
Here is a quote from Tim Leary on the matter that I have always liked:

Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities, the political, the religious, the educational authorities who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing, forming in our minds their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable, open-mindedness; chaotic, confused, vulnerability to inform yourself.

In regards to how I apply these principles, I suggest checking out my blog – I write a lot about my life there. Thanks for the comment, you definitely made me do some thinking :)

Peter

]]> By: Dark Sociologist http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-to-embrace-the-renaissance-spirit/comment-page-1/#comment-26033 Dark Sociologist Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:59:48 +0000 http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-to-embrace-the-renaissance-spirit/#comment-26033 Doesn't it seem like a paradox that someone is teaching you how to be an independent thinker? It reminds me of a dialog that this one kid used to say all the time: Master: Repeat after me, "We are all individuals!" Everyone: "We are all individuals" 3rd Guy: "I'm not!" Peter, I'm curious how you're applying these principles. Doesn’t it seem like a paradox that someone is teaching you how to be an independent thinker? It reminds me of a dialog that this one kid used to say all the time:

Master: Repeat after me, “We are all individuals!”
Everyone: “We are all individuals”
3rd Guy: “I’m not!”

Peter, I’m curious how you’re applying these principles.

]]> By: Uomini (e donne) del Rinascimento « strategie evolutive http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-to-embrace-the-renaissance-spirit/comment-page-1/#comment-25908 Uomini (e donne) del Rinascimento « strategie evolutive Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:56:28 +0000 http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-to-embrace-the-renaissance-spirit/#comment-25908 [...] invece, un interessante post sul sito di Pick the Brain suggerisce proprio questo - la vostra vita personale e professionale fa schifo? Siete in un vicolo [...] [...] invece, un interessante post sul sito di Pick the Brain suggerisce proprio questo – la vostra vita personale e professionale fa schifo? Siete in un vicolo [...]

]]> By: Eugene (Editor, Varsity Blah) http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-to-embrace-the-renaissance-spirit/comment-page-1/#comment-25891 Eugene (Editor, Varsity Blah) Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:27:20 +0000 http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-to-embrace-the-renaissance-spirit/#comment-25891 I'm so glad you mentioned independent thinking first! I've always thought of it as the most important thing and wrote about it recently: "And of all the values I wanted to live by, one stood out. More than anything, I wanted to be an independent thinker. I didn’t want to be one of those people who believed certain beliefs just because I always had or lived a certain life just because everyone else did. I didn’t want to be one of those people who hopped on whatever bandwagon happened to be pulling into town without ever taking the time to think for myself. "I needed to be my own person. I needed to stand up for myself and the things I believed in most, even if it meant being unpopular. I needed to stop accepting things at face value and start question the status quo, even if it meant being criticized. I needed to become comfortable with who I was. It was the only way I’d be able to set my own standards, make my own mistakes, and live my own life. It was the only way my life would be worth living in the first place. It was the only way I’d be able to make a real difference." I’m so glad you mentioned independent thinking first! I’ve always thought of it as the most important thing and wrote about it recently:

“And of all the values I wanted to live by, one stood out. More than anything, I wanted to be an independent thinker. I didn’t want to be one of those people who believed certain beliefs just because I always had or lived a certain life just because everyone else did. I didn’t want to be one of those people who hopped on whatever bandwagon happened to be pulling into town without ever taking the time to think for myself.

“I needed to be my own person. I needed to stand up for myself and the things I believed in most, even if it meant being unpopular. I needed to stop accepting things at face value and start question the status quo, even if it meant being criticized. I needed to become comfortable with who I was. It was the only way I’d be able to set my own standards, make my own mistakes, and live my own life. It was the only way my life would be worth living in the first place. It was the only way I’d be able to make a real difference.”

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