Humainologie creative dialogue on Personal Growth Wednesday March 31
- Arthur Clark
- Mar 30, 2021
- 2 min read
“Remember: everyone in the classroom has a story that leads to misbehavior or defiance. Nine times out of 10, the story behind the misbehavior won’t make you angry. It will break your heart.” - Annette Breaux
Our topic for the creative dialogue tomorrow Wednesday March 31 is Personal Growth: Many Ways to Map the Territory. Zenia will facilitate, and you have previously received her orientation with some good questions. Additionally, to get your creativity moving, you might look for a YouTube presentation on anything you think is important for your personal growth. I recently found this one entitled “I am what I choose to become,” based on the insights of Carl Jung.
It works well for me and you might also enjoy it. A bit of Stoic wisdom on the beauty of choice is appended below this message.
Here once again is the link for our Zoom meeting which begins at 6:30 PM Calgary time.
Topic: Humainologie creative dialogue Time: March 31, 2021 06:30 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada) Every week on Wed, until Apr 28, 2021, 9 occurrence(s) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83720756307?pwd=WVU2OGo3ZjMzWVMwdlVZUzY1RVMwdz09 Meeting ID: 837 2075 6307 Passcode: 12345
Join us tomorrow and contribute your wisdom to our ever-growing Group Genius!
Arthur
From Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman, The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living:
The Beauty of Choice
“You are not your body and hair-style, but your capacity for choosing well. If your choices are beautiful, so too will you be.” - Epictetus, Discourses, 3.1.39b-40a
It’s that line in the movie Fight Club: “You are not your job, you’re not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet.” Obviously our friend Epictetus never saw that movie or read the book – but apparently the consumerism of the 1990s existed in ancient Rome too.
It’s easy to confuse the image we present to the world for who we actually are, especially when media messaging deliberately blurs that distinction.
You might look beautiful today, but if that was the result of vain obsession in the mirror this morning, the Stoics would ask, are you actually beautiful? A body built from hard work is admirable. A body built to impress gym rats is not.
That’s what the Stoics urge us to consider. Not how things appear, but what effort, activity, and choices they are a result of.
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