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Every year John Brockman and the other folks behind Edge.org pose a question to dozens of scientists, writers, artists, inventors, and thinkers of various stripes. The question for 2012: What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation? Nearly 200 thinkers weighed in. I share a few of my favorite replies from the psychological and cognitive sciences. Read More
My favourite explanation
Dear Tania,
Thank you very much for this fascinating article !
I am a 32-year old woman, a teacher and translator of English and also a logistics specialist.
Please let me share one of my favourite explanations with You.
This is given in Self-Reliance by R.W. Emerson.
"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. "
Thank you very much for your time taken for my favourite explanation !
I wish you all the bests in you work and personal life.
Best Regards,
Vio
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Dear Vio,
Thank you for sharing your favorite explanation! It bears on so many important issues.
Best,
Tania
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