Losultimosapuntes

  Chaos and order are fundamental elements because every lived situation is made of both  Order is not enough. You can't just be stable and secure and unchanging, because there are still vital and important new things to be learned.  Nonetheless, chaos can be too much you can't tolerate being swamped and overwhelmed beyond your capacity to cope while you are learning what you still need to know. Thus, you need to place one foot in what you have mastered and understand and the other in what you are currently exploring and mastering.  You have positioned yourself where the terror of existence is under control and you are secure, but where you are also alert and engaged. That is where there is something new to master and some way that you can be improved,  that is where meaning is to be found.  From 12 rules 

 In studying a philosopher the right attitude is neither reverence nor contempt, but first a kind of hypothetical sympathy, until it is possible to know what it feels like to believe in his theories, and only then a revival of the critical attitude, which should resemble as far as possible, the state of mind of a person abandoning opinions which he has hitherto held. Contempt interferes with the first part of this process and reverence with the second. Two things are to be remembered : that a man with whose opinions and theories are worth studying may be presumed to have some intelligence, but no man is likely to have arrived at complete and final truth on any subject whatever. When an intelligent man expresses a view which seems to us obviously absurd, we should not attempt to prove that it is somehow true, but we should try to understand how it ever came to seem true.  This exercise of historical and psychological imagination at once enlarges the scope of our thinking and he...