Ep 28: Marked and Engraved

Another Pod from the Quar! This is a lively conversation continuing on our theme of Character and exploring into the deep metaphors around fertile soil. Lots of great people, ideas, and quotes referenced, and we tried to link to as many of them as we could remember below! Character can be traced back to the Greek charassein, meaning “to sharpen, cut in furrows, or engrave.” This word gave the Greeks charaktēr, a noun meaning “mark, distinctive quality” (a meaning that was shared by the Latin character). The War of Art by Steven Pressfield https://www.amazon.com/War-Art-Through-Creative-Battles/dp/1936891026/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Artificial Intelligence podcast by Lex Fridman https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/artificial-intelligence-ai-podcast-with-lex/id1434243584 Roger Penrose (Lex Fridman interview) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/85-roger-penrose-physics-consciousness-infinite-universe/id1434243584?i=1000470085508 The master and his emissary - "All language is metaphor" "Any one thing can be understood only in terms of another thing, and ultimately that must come down to a something that is experienced, outside the system of signs (i.e. by the body). The very words which form the building blocks of explicit thought are themselves all originally metaphors, grounded in the human body and its experience.... the right hemisphere can see that metaphor is the only way to preserve the link between language and the world it refers to" (Pg 118) Jordan Peterson - The Phycological significance of the Biblical Stories https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-wWBGo6a2w Carl Jung on Neuroses https://academyofideas.com/2019/01/carl-jung-value-of-anxiety-disorders/ https://academyofideas.com/2019/02/carl-jung-overcoming-anxiety-disorders/ "Your job isn’t to do the growing. Do the work of creating fertile soil, and the work of keeping the weeds out." "You have to be honest about the things that can bring the ship down"