Imaginary boundaries..........

Once you understand the backstory, you realize that the New York Times story is not really about flight at all but about how elites and credentialed “experts” mistake their own failures for the boundaries of possibility.

-and the rest of the story is here

It's not discipline...................

 

................................it's enjoyment with boundaries.

thanks Kurt

On guard..............................

     "We must always be on guard about limiting God, whether in language, thought, or theology.  It is so easy to do that often we do not realize we are doing it."

-Moses de Leon, as channeled by James C. Harrington and Sidney G. Hall, III in their book, Three Mystics Walk Into A Tavern:  A Once and Future Meeting of Rumi, Meister Eckhart, and Moses de Leon in Medieval Venice

On balkanizing reality.............

     Of course, when I urge a multidisciplinary approach - that you've got to have the main models from a broad array of disciplines and you've got to use them all - I'm really asking you to ignore jurisdictional boundaries.
     And the world isn't organized that way.  It discourages the jumping of jurisdictional boundaries.  Big bureaucratic businesses discourage it.  And, of course, academia itself discourages it.  All I can say there is that, in that respect, academia is horribly wrong and dysfunctional.
     And some of the worst dysfunctions in businesses come from the fact that they balkanize reality into little individual departments with territoriality and turf protection and so forth.  So if you want to be a good thinker, you must develop a mind that can jump the jurisdictional boundaries.
     You don't have to know it all.  Just take the best big ideas from all these disciplines.  And it's not that hard to do.

-Charlie Munger,  Poor Charlie's Almanack,  the Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

Boundaries....................

55.  The general wickedness of mankind cannot injure the universe;  nor can the particular wickedness of one man injure a fellow man.  It harms none but the culprit himself;  and he can free himself from it as soon as he so chooses.


56.  My neighbor's will is no greater concern to my will than his breath or his flesh.  No matter how much we are made for one another, still each man's self has its own sovereign rights.  Otherwise, my neighbor's wickedness would become my evil;  and God has not willed this, lest the ruin of my happiness should lie at another's disposal.


-Marcus Aurelius,  Meditations,  Book VIII

Jumped..................................

     I was greatly helped in my quest by two turns of mind.  First, I had long looked for insight by inversion in the intense manner counseled by the great algebraist, Jacobi:  "Invert, always invert."   I sought good judgment mostly by collecting instances of bad judgment, then pondering ways to avoid such outcomes.  Second, I became so avid a collector of instances of bad judgment that I paid no attention to boundaries between professional territories.  After all, why should I search for some tiny, unimportant, hard-to-find new stupidity in my own field when some large, important, easy-to-find stupidity was just over the fence in the other fellow's professional territory?  Besides, I could already see that real-world problems didn't neatly lie within territorial boundaries.  They jumped right across.
-Charles T. Munger, as excerpted from The Psychology of Human Misjudgment

Dare.........................................

"A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free."
-Nikos Kazantzakis

As a parent, there have been more than a few times that I wished I had another "mulligan".......

"A pupil from whom nothing is ever demanded which he cannot do, never does all he can."
-John Stuart Mill,   from The Autobiography of John Stuart Mill

Advice for dealing with us introverts.......

Well schooled, but bored nonetheless.....

thanks Nan