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So I was Wrong

By Scoplaw

Which happens often.  The trick is to not fear being wrong, for without risk, there's no growth, no tension that causes you to examine.  So, talking, reading, thinking, writing, doing and being newly is the mandate.  Not obsessively, of course, but in a way that challenges you, that keeps you moving. Last night the Unpronounceable Name stopped by for dinner and talk (and, in general, companionship), which featured, in parts, a sort of very challenging meta conversation on leading the good life, as well as the visceralness of belief in a Catholic context.  As Aristotle would have noted (had he been invited), talk and inquiry and conversation was itself a kind of productive happiness (a happiness in doing, not, as our culture often quite wrongly has it, in a kind of post-achievement glow and external rewards...continue to full post

Full post as published by Scoplaw on May 11, 2008 (boomark / email).