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Zen and the Art of EQ
Apr. 19th, 2015 10:12 amI listened through Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance over the past few weeks as my first official audio book for my work commute. I had no idea how deeply interdisciplinarian, philosophical, and overall interesting that book is. I wish I'd read it back in high school, back during the time I was knee deep reading Heinlein, Dostoyevsky, and Nietzsche. I think the book would have quickly and easily prompted me to read some other philosophers which I still have not read as well as finally delve more into the Greek philosophers. Granted, I probably would have found the Greek philosophers overall annoying, but I would at least have a better working knowledge of their fundamental stances over what I have now, which is only that I recognize their names. I now have a brief summary of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle from what was given in the book at least.
My favorite line from the book: "And then to get hit, right off, straight in the face, with an asshole statement like that!"
I don't believe the statement in question could have been called anything better. It's also a favorite line because it sums up so neatly and precisely how I sometimes feel about things that really go against the grain of living, or as Phaedrus in the book describes it, things that go against overall quality.
Funny enough, I was able to combine the description of boredom in the book with Alan Watts' description of boredom to talk with Mom last night about Little Bit always getting bored when his older brother doesn't want to play with him.
I have so many thoughts that have come up from "reading" this book. One in particular has stuck itself in my brain regarding pattern recognition, but it's a bit of a seed right now, so my brain is working on turning it over until it grows into adulthood before I actually will work on writing it out completely. I've at least written down the elements of the seed so I don't forget.
Lolotehe linked an article regarding emotional intelligence to me. I'm not even 1/5th of the way into it, but my brain is already trying to make connections.
( Those connections )
My favorite line from the book: "And then to get hit, right off, straight in the face, with an asshole statement like that!"
I don't believe the statement in question could have been called anything better. It's also a favorite line because it sums up so neatly and precisely how I sometimes feel about things that really go against the grain of living, or as Phaedrus in the book describes it, things that go against overall quality.
Funny enough, I was able to combine the description of boredom in the book with Alan Watts' description of boredom to talk with Mom last night about Little Bit always getting bored when his older brother doesn't want to play with him.
I have so many thoughts that have come up from "reading" this book. One in particular has stuck itself in my brain regarding pattern recognition, but it's a bit of a seed right now, so my brain is working on turning it over until it grows into adulthood before I actually will work on writing it out completely. I've at least written down the elements of the seed so I don't forget.
Lolotehe linked an article regarding emotional intelligence to me. I'm not even 1/5th of the way into it, but my brain is already trying to make connections.
( Those connections )
