"Pass on what you have learned. Strength, mastery. But weakness, folly, failure, also. Yes, failure most of all. The greatest teacher, failure is. Luke, we are what they grow beyond. That is the true burden of all masters."

-- Master Yoda, Star Wars VIII: The Last Jedi

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The Potter


I recently posted this to a friend's blog, decided I wanted to more thoroughly own it, and so have reworked it here:

I’ve become a TED fan, see wonders sublime and profane (just kidding) there, intend serious consideration of a reduced-thing-set living (a word-play on RISC, reduced-instruction-set computing CPUs) based upon http://www.ted.com/talks/graham_hill_less_stuff_more_happiness.html. Howver, another two lectures that hit much closer to where I live, inside my skin, come from "Wrongologist" Kathryn Schulz:



I see Variations on a Theme:


  • Captain Kirk (Star Trek V The Final Frontier) proclaims that his memories make him who he is, that he _needs_ the pain.
  • Dr. Katherine Pulaski (ST:TNG Elementary, Dear Data) advises that "Failure is the great teacher".
  • (a real person, not just Star Trek philosophy) Kathryn Schulz advises on the value of being wrong, and of regretting.


These all seem to say the same thing to me, that we may make choices based upon imperfect information, but that then the results of those choices become our experiences; they shape us. We choose the potter (the nature of life is that we MUST choose), and then the potter shapes us the clay.
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