Tuesday, May 01, 2018
Yin Yang pairs I've caught in the wild
Everyone has their
list of yin-yang pairs that appeal to them. Here's mine.
1. Feeling unique vs
feeling as part of the crowd
2. Sitting reading vs. Out drinking OR trekking in nature
Wordsworth:
Books, a dull and
endless strife,
One impulse from a
vernal wood, May teach you more of man,Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can
3. During R&R (rest and relaxation) Stand and stare vs. immerse yourself into some high energy activity
4. The entire business
classic 'Built to Last' is all about Yin Yang which is the secret sauce of the
'built to last' companies. The book implores you to ditch the 'tyranny of OR'
and embrace the 'Genius of AND'. It talks about how companies rigidly preserve
their core yet stimulate progress around it. And a bunch of other such examples
(big hairy audacious goals AND incremental evolutionary progress). The books
goes on to quote Scott Fitzgerald: "The test of a first-rate intelligence
is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and
still retain the ability to function"
5. Wave vs. Particle
On this front, really
like the name of the band - 'Dualist Inquiry', who I'd heard live at Mehboob
Studio with MM, one fine evening in 2010 odd.
Nice number: Qualia . This
is definitely not my favorite genre, but he played well.
This is a running
post. Will keep adding to it as yin yang balls come bouncing at me from the
wild and I catch em, like trapping Pokemon, in my Yin Yang blog post.
Additions:
6. Being a player vs being an observer
7. Being Grateful for what you have, vs being dissatisfied and looking for improvement
8. Listening to others vs ignoring others and doing your thing
9. Enjoying the journey andknowing that it's about the journey not a destination, but setting a destination so that you have a journey to go to, and you don't have nagging existential questions during the journey because you know that the goal, when you get there, is worth the while (added Mar 16)
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