“So, we’re not short of things we can believe in. What we’re short of is methods for making those beliefs stick. We are catastrophically bad at actually activating, bringing into action, theories that we all assent to in, you know, in the quiet of our minds. So in the quiet of our minds we believe in kindness and generosity and tolerance and all the rest of it. Go outside to the rest of the world, are the values actually active? No. In many places they’re not. And so that’s was interests me. How can we make the things we do agree on get a grip on our minds at those key moments when we’re actually acting in the world?” Alain de Botton
Posted on: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 16:20:40 +0000
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