You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. ~Douglas MacArthur
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Opposites
A short (21/2 min) TED talk:
One of the reasons why travel is so valuable. It can make us aware of cultural mind-sets that may be in place in our thinking and our assumptions about the world, the universe and our place at the apparent center.
Fascinating, but would you have to walk all the way around the block to find a house in Japan since the numbers are not sequential? To my thinking, this presentation shows how relative to culture and conditioning TRADITION is. It's not so much about the opposite being true as looking at things from a different perspective, but it was still very interesting.
Opposites was my immediate reaction to the talk. Not really an appropriate title. It strikes me that you could rewrite your phrase with either, cultural, conditioning, or tradition switched up and still be exactly correct. It shows how relative to conditioning and tradition culture is.
Your title is fine, especially since most of the differences the speaker was talking about were from the opposite side of the world. I wasn't being critical of how you titled your post, I was just being a little nit-picky about the speaker's use of "truth." I think we are in agreement here, it's just hard to communicate sometimes without seeing someone's facial expression and sensing whether or not we're on the same page.
Fascinating, but would you have to walk all the way around the block to find a house in Japan since the numbers are not sequential? To my thinking, this presentation shows how relative to culture and conditioning TRADITION is. It's not so much about the opposite being true as looking at things from a different perspective, but it was still very interesting.
ReplyDeleteOpposites was my immediate reaction to the talk. Not really an appropriate title. It strikes me that you could rewrite your phrase with either, cultural, conditioning, or tradition switched up and still be exactly correct. It shows how relative to conditioning and tradition culture is.
ReplyDeleteYour title is fine, especially since most of the differences the speaker was talking about were from the opposite side of the world. I wasn't being critical of how you titled your post, I was just being a little nit-picky about the speaker's use of "truth." I think we are in agreement here, it's just hard to communicate sometimes without seeing someone's facial expression and sensing whether or not we're on the same page.
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