Andrew: I’ll second what Kyle says, and add that you’ve done a marvelous job relating a personal story and then weaving your personal business tenets into a universal application without missing a beat. Bravo.
First of all, it took me quite a while to absorb the images of the poses. I am in awe as the only acrobatic skills that I have are navigating the stairs in the dark when one of the cats are trying to kill me.
But I think Timothy articulated my thoughts very well. It demonstrates how practical a philosophy for life truly is for all aspects of life.
Valuing the reputation you have with yourself over externals. Love everything about that quote. The only thing I might enjoy more in this post is the first pic of you doing the Turkish get-up regardless of how technically easy you claim it to be. Learned something new about you in this post brother which has made me like you that much more. What a cool skill to have and develop.
Elite level fitness, stability, and mental discipline for stuff like this. Your description of considerations for doing it with a partner and the added element of challenge that brings makes these efforts that much better
There's a lot packed in there! Reputation is an interesting study because, as you pointed out with Socrates, There's nothing more he could have done when malicious people want to destroy you. I've had it happen on a professional level where, not matter what I did, it was interpreted as wrong. Worse, those leaders were 'successful.' I also wonder how many of those men who accused Socrates were 'successful' in their lives even if their memories are lost to history?
Meletus was a young and not very successful poet who saw himself as representing religious values/priests.
Anytus was a prominent democrat who seems to have had a grudge against Socrates, since Socrates freely criticized the less savory elements of Athenian Democracy. Anytus's son spent time learning from Socrates, which Anytus presumably didn't like.
But the jury that convicted him was filled with aging men who'd served in the Peloponnesian war, which was lost because of the stupid mistakes of the Athenian public. I imagine most weren't fans of how Socrates had criticized democracy's flaws, and then saw how his critiques were shown to be true in a disastrous fashion they were involved in.
Very well said Andrew. 👏 Reminds me of this from Abraham Lincoln:
"Character is like a tree and reputation is its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing."
That's a great line.
Andrew: I’ll second what Kyle says, and add that you’ve done a marvelous job relating a personal story and then weaving your personal business tenets into a universal application without missing a beat. Bravo.
Thanks!
First of all, it took me quite a while to absorb the images of the poses. I am in awe as the only acrobatic skills that I have are navigating the stairs in the dark when one of the cats are trying to kill me.
But I think Timothy articulated my thoughts very well. It demonstrates how practical a philosophy for life truly is for all aspects of life.
Thanks!
Excellent piece Andrew. One of those that I'll come back to again and again.
Thanks!
Valuing the reputation you have with yourself over externals. Love everything about that quote. The only thing I might enjoy more in this post is the first pic of you doing the Turkish get-up regardless of how technically easy you claim it to be. Learned something new about you in this post brother which has made me like you that much more. What a cool skill to have and develop.
HTGs are a fun skill for me. I have a couple of weird variations up my sleeve, liked a croc variant: https://bashify.io/i/BD0HEn
And a couple of others that I've only succeeded in doing once or twice because the balance is so finicky and the flyer needs to be ridiculous.
Elite level fitness, stability, and mental discipline for stuff like this. Your description of considerations for doing it with a partner and the added element of challenge that brings makes these efforts that much better
There's a lot packed in there! Reputation is an interesting study because, as you pointed out with Socrates, There's nothing more he could have done when malicious people want to destroy you. I've had it happen on a professional level where, not matter what I did, it was interpreted as wrong. Worse, those leaders were 'successful.' I also wonder how many of those men who accused Socrates were 'successful' in their lives even if their memories are lost to history?
Meletus was a young and not very successful poet who saw himself as representing religious values/priests.
Anytus was a prominent democrat who seems to have had a grudge against Socrates, since Socrates freely criticized the less savory elements of Athenian Democracy. Anytus's son spent time learning from Socrates, which Anytus presumably didn't like.
But the jury that convicted him was filled with aging men who'd served in the Peloponnesian war, which was lost because of the stupid mistakes of the Athenian public. I imagine most weren't fans of how Socrates had criticized democracy's flaws, and then saw how his critiques were shown to be true in a disastrous fashion they were involved in.