No comment so far? Then I now. I can make it short. First: 2♥️ for content & style. Second: I was touched. You describe my life. I am not a writer. But HA's writing routines are my life routines. That's exactly how I live. That may sound pretentious or crazy. But it just is. Anyone who wants can check it out (w/Virus difficult at the moment, of course). What I realized while reading the essay: how privileged I am, because I don't need these routines and their precious yield for a job (writing, or whatever), but they are my 2nd skin, they are my life. They are not to be separated from me at all . That's just how I am . and they are also not a sacrifice or a limitation . On the contrary - I am richly gifted. Of course, this way of living is the result of a long learning and practice - but that's another story......for another occasion.
I love the idea of taking dictation from my, "other self". The one who is there right now looking over my shoulder, and who wants to say, "but I love all those distractions and wild goose chases!". Yes, but that's why you never write them down! I think "solitude" is the key factor here. Have the time, space, and privacy to be with your own thoughts.
Sometimes I feel as if there is a "three in one". Many times I will suddenly realize that there has been an internal conversation happening in my head. Perhaps it was between "me" and "myself imagining itself as another", but without my conscious self participating. And then, when the conversation is winding down, my conscious self will join the party.
I have never given much thought to thinking. I think but it is without discipline, but only because I did not understand there is a discipline to thinking until I happened upon your newsletter. It may be naïve, perhaps even fantastical; however, it seems if all people understood the discipline of thinking as Arendt seems to have understood it, would history’s trajectory be the same? Is this what Arendt wanted us to consider from her observations on Eichmann and the meaning of her phrase, "the banality of evil?"
The familiar adage often quoted is "you are what you think." That may be true, but I think the proverb has an unwritten parallelism which is you live as you think. Thinking is a means to know oneself. Does this mean there is a right way to think? Is there a wrong way to think? There appears to be a moral ambiguity to thinking that leads towards defining an identity we allow the world to know.
At any point, these are a few thought prompts from reading your articles and book.
No comment so far? Then I now. I can make it short. First: 2♥️ for content & style. Second: I was touched. You describe my life. I am not a writer. But HA's writing routines are my life routines. That's exactly how I live. That may sound pretentious or crazy. But it just is. Anyone who wants can check it out (w/Virus difficult at the moment, of course). What I realized while reading the essay: how privileged I am, because I don't need these routines and their precious yield for a job (writing, or whatever), but they are my 2nd skin, they are my life. They are not to be separated from me at all . That's just how I am . and they are also not a sacrifice or a limitation . On the contrary - I am richly gifted. Of course, this way of living is the result of a long learning and practice - but that's another story......for another occasion.
Greetings from the East to the West -gg
I love the idea of taking dictation from my, "other self". The one who is there right now looking over my shoulder, and who wants to say, "but I love all those distractions and wild goose chases!". Yes, but that's why you never write them down! I think "solitude" is the key factor here. Have the time, space, and privacy to be with your own thoughts.
Sometimes I feel as if there is a "three in one". Many times I will suddenly realize that there has been an internal conversation happening in my head. Perhaps it was between "me" and "myself imagining itself as another", but without my conscious self participating. And then, when the conversation is winding down, my conscious self will join the party.
I now feel better about endlessly talking to myself, writing sentences in my mind.
Thanks! I've found a lot of inspiration and some connections with my writing routines.
As in this case, for example:
https://curatella.com/practice-transcribing-your-thoughts-to-become-an-effective-communicator/
I have never given much thought to thinking. I think but it is without discipline, but only because I did not understand there is a discipline to thinking until I happened upon your newsletter. It may be naïve, perhaps even fantastical; however, it seems if all people understood the discipline of thinking as Arendt seems to have understood it, would history’s trajectory be the same? Is this what Arendt wanted us to consider from her observations on Eichmann and the meaning of her phrase, "the banality of evil?"
The familiar adage often quoted is "you are what you think." That may be true, but I think the proverb has an unwritten parallelism which is you live as you think. Thinking is a means to know oneself. Does this mean there is a right way to think? Is there a wrong way to think? There appears to be a moral ambiguity to thinking that leads towards defining an identity we allow the world to know.
At any point, these are a few thought prompts from reading your articles and book.