Pianist Lang Lang Plays iPad For Concert Encore (VIDEO)
Friday, April 23, 2010
Monday, April 19, 2010
Intentionality
"What's the role of intentionality here? It's certainly involved in the creation of the structure-as-idea. It's also involved in the transformation of that structure from one of its forms to another. This sort of transformation, in fact, is what the process of mastery is all about. Sometimes I have my students hold the vision or the feeling of a certain throw in their mind, and then practice it over and over for an hour or more until they are drenched with sweat and wiped clean of their previous thoughts or feelings about the throw. This use of intentionality often produces favorable results in the palpable, three-dimensional world of the martial arts.
Thoughts, images, and feelings are indeed quite real. Einstein's thought that energy is equal to mass times the speed of light squared (E = MC^2) eventually unleashed awesome power. The transformation of that thought into heat and percussion was a long andarduous process. Still, the thought, the vision, the intentionality, was primary."
All I know," said Arnold Schwarzenneger, "is that the first step is to create the vision, because when you see the vision there—the beautiful vision—that creates the 'want power.' For example, my wanting to be Mr. Universe came about because I saw myself so clearly, being up there on the stage and winning."
Intentionality fuels the master's journey. Every master is a master of vision."
from George Leonard's Mastery p. 96
Thoughts, images, and feelings are indeed quite real. Einstein's thought that energy is equal to mass times the speed of light squared (E = MC^2) eventually unleashed awesome power. The transformation of that thought into heat and percussion was a long andarduous process. Still, the thought, the vision, the intentionality, was primary."
All I know," said Arnold Schwarzenneger, "is that the first step is to create the vision, because when you see the vision there—the beautiful vision—that creates the 'want power.' For example, my wanting to be Mr. Universe came about because I saw myself so clearly, being up there on the stage and winning."
Intentionality fuels the master's journey. Every master is a master of vision."
from George Leonard's Mastery p. 96
Friday, April 16, 2010
Thursday, April 08, 2010
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
Sunday, April 04, 2010
Frumpurgation
March 2010 David Frum
cf. Ranking Conservatives 6.17.2007
- Waterloo
- AEI Says Goodbye
- Joel Whitney interviews David Frum, Guernica January 2009
- David Frum Purged TPM March 25, 2010
- NPR, All Things Considered April 1, 2010
- The Daily Dish, Frum's Departure From AEI Reax March 26, 2010
But here's where David and I agree: we both grew up when conservatism was intellectually sharp and interesting. Its current brutal anti-intellectualism, its open hostility to moderation in any form; its substitution of purer and purer ideology for actual, pragmatic ideas: these are trends that have left a lot of us on the center right marooned. I think David may well be glad he is now formally ostracized. It will liberate him and his formidable mind. Serious thinking conservatives know that these are times for real re-thinking, not more positioning. Julian Sanchez:
One of the more striking features of the contemporary conservative movement is the extent to which it has been moving toward epistemic closure. Reality is defined by a multimedia array of interconnected and cross promoting conservative blogs, radio programs, magazines, and of course, Fox News. Whatever conflicts with that reality can be dismissed out of hand because it comes from the liberal media, and is therefore ipso facto not to be trusted. (How do you know they’re liberal? Well, they disagree with the conservative media!) This epistemic closure can be a source of solidarity and energy, but it also renders the conservative media ecosystem fragile.
cf. Ranking Conservatives 6.17.2007
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