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Originally Posted by Letum
As for a profession, famous book or academic prestige, all are far beyond
me. I failed two academic courses in philosophy and despite extensive
reading since, would fail a third if I took it. I am quite the amateur.
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A question of standards to which you want to compare yourself. Sometimes I thought you seem to have memorised a lot of detailed specifics, but somehow lack a framework that puts them into context. On other occasions you showed an ability to compare things to each within one thematic context, but the insight in specific details was lagging behind.
That you say you had philosophy courses, does not surprise me, it meets my image of you perfectly.
And yes indeed - really not wanting to patronise you - you remind me very much of myself back then, too. I was as "
verkopft" (only translation the book gives is over-intellectual)back then, as you are. The cure for me was my mentor, who insisted on not separating martial arts and meditation but train me in both, and some years later the happy circumstance that my student job at a newspaper led me to those contacts that later ended in me starting to extensively travel, which for me meant to jump off a cliff and into the unnown - I was extremely anxious in the beginning, never having done anything riskful and dangerous all alone and in my very own responsibility. Until then I had lived safe and protected in the leap of my family, and the isolation and away-from-reality-environment of the theoretic academic routine, enjoying a student's easy-going life.
Move beyond your known frameworks. Accept the risk that the surprise maybe is not always a positive one. Both is part of life. Both brought me tears (rarely), and joy (mostly). Without it, I would still be living in a glass.
Whatever, good luck.
