![]() It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in: the head. This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth. Think of the old cliché about ‘the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.’ Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Twenty years after my own graduation, I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts cliché about teaching you how to think is actually shorthand for a much deeper, more serious idea: learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It is extremely difficult to stay alert and attentive, instead of getting hypnotized by the constant monologue inside your own head (may be happening right now). ![]() On the double-edged sword of the intellect, which Einstein, Steve Jobs, and Anne Lamott have spoken to: People who can adjust their natural default setting this way are often described as being ‘well-adjusted’, which I suggest to you is not an accidental term. It’s a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free of my natural, hard-wired default setting which is to be deeply and literally self-centered and to see and interpret everything through this lens of self. Please don’t worry that I’m getting ready to lecture you about compassion or other-directedness or all the so-called virtues. Other people’s thoughts and feelings have to be communicated to you somehow, but your own are so immediate, urgent, real. ![]() The world as you experience it is there in front of YOU or behind YOU, to the left or right of YOU, on YOUR TV or YOUR monitor. Think about it: there is no experience you have had that you are not the absolute centre of. It is our default setting, hard-wired into our boards at birth. But it’s pretty much the same for all of us. We rarely think about this sort of natural, basic self-centredness because it’s so socially repulsive. Here is just one example of the total wrongness of something I tend to be automatically sure of: everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute centre of the universe the realest, most vivid and important person in existence. On solipsism and compassion, and the choice to see the other: You can hear the original delivery in two parts below, along with the the most poignant passages. The speech, which includes a remark about suicide by firearms that came to be extensively discussed after Wallace’s own eventual suicide, was published as a slim book titled This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life ( public library). Just three years earlier, he stepped onto the podium at Kenyon College and delivered one of the most timeless graduation speeches of all time - the only public talk he ever gave on his views of life. original sound - the WrestleTok Drip God.ģ01.On September 12, 2008, David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962–September 12, 2008) was slain by depression, taking his own life and becoming a kind of patron-saint of the “tortured genius” myth of creativity. TikTok video from the WrestleTok Drip God "#Asuka hits #ChelseaGreen with the blue mist! #wrestling #prowrestling #wrestletok #wrestletiktok #wrestlingtok #wrestlingtiktok #prowrestlingtok #prowrestlingtiktok #WWE #WWF #WCW #ECW #AEW #ROH #MLW #NWA #TNA #NJPW #IMPACTWrestling #NXT #RAW #SmackDown #MondayNightRAW #FridayNightSmackDown #WWERAW #WWESmackDown #WWENXT #Dynamite #AEWDynamite #Rampage #AEWRampage #EgoDrip #COCOANDTHEBONE #WrestleTokDripGod #Hambone #WreckingCrew #getwrecked #fyp #foryourpage #fypシ". #Asuka hits #ChelseaGreen with the blue mist! #wrestling #prowrestling #wrestletok #wrestletiktok #wrestlingtok #wrestlingtiktok #prowrestlingtok #prowrestlingtiktok #WWE #WWF #WCW #ECW #AEW #ROH #MLW #NWA #TNA #NJPW #IMPACTWrestling #NXT #RAW #SmackDown #MondayNightRAW #FridayNightSmackDown #WWERAW #WWESmackDown #WWENXT #Dynamite #AEWDynamite #Rampage #AEWRampage #EgoDrip #COCOANDTHEBONE #WrestleTokDripGod #Hambone #WreckingCrew #getwrecked #fyp #foryourpage #fypシġ4.4K Likes, 157 Comments.
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