"The wise are instructed by reason, average minds
by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by
instinct." -- Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman, orator
and writer, 106-43 BCE. (Thanks to xpioti, who
took it from
AWAD.)
Well, I like reason, respect experience, know some phenomena are counterintuitive, and go with what seems to work. Even if it's brute instinct. To deny any route to a solution is foolish, no? So get me a bigger hammer, and a delicate set of pliers.
"Both law and scripture, prayer and priest have all instructed me. My skin, my bones, my heretic heart, are my authority." I forget who wrote it, but can sing it.
Sometimes that is what is right. The song is one I use as a "swagger song" when I'm unsure of entering a new dance, or taking on a recalcitrant piece of machinery. It's reassuring the same way Sydney Carter's "Lovely in the Dances" is, though bolder.
We are all a bit of each, mostly. I like to think that we are all nifty if we try, and that a proper bracing song can put us in the frame of mind to unveil it.
Find a song that works for you, and sing it over and over if necessary. I don't have much better advice there.
So do your best and stomp impediments. It can be enlightening. Or not.
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"Both law and scripture, prayer and priest have all instructed me. My skin, my bones, my heretic heart, are my authority." I forget who wrote it, but can sing it.
Heretic Heart
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We are all a bit of each, mostly. I like to think that we are all nifty if we try, and that a proper bracing song can put us in the frame of mind to unveil it.
Find a song that works for you, and sing it over and over if necessary. I don't have much better advice there.
So do your best and stomp impediments. It can be enlightening. Or not.