I concluded a long time ago that Alexander’s Discovery is so simple and persuasive that it masters the remarkable ability to hide itself in plain view.
Leunig - a famous, iconic and loved Australian cartoonist - was just fired by The Age in Melbourne as part of the COVID-19 culture wars. The Age aspires to be Australia’s NYT – its action may seem to be the kind of timid reaction that boomers like my Self underline as a world gone crazy.
Who cries while reading a book about how to engineer a car?
I do.
I am reading “Power Play” by Tim Higgens, where he documents the rise of the first new automobile company since 1923 that could challenge the dinosaurs. Elon Musk succeeded. Tesla is now worth more than Toyota, GM & Ford combined.
1. People live perfectly with the information they have
2. Pain is friendly and supportive to the person who has it
3. Pain results from confused thinking - the truth sets you free
4. Accurate information is the engine of conscious evolution
5. Cognitive recognition of experience is paramount in changing behaviour
6. Head movements govern vertebral co-ordination and subsequent activities
I love hanging out with GenZenners (born between 1997~2015) when they can tolerate a Boomer like me. My two daughters are in that club, and I know a few in Tokyo too.
There’s life in the old boy yet.
One topic that is popular amongst them is the right to be Selfish.
I’ve done the ‘middle life crisis’ thingy – and several times at that – so I guess it’s time to pull a different coloured rabbit out of the hat…
So here we, on a sultry summer’s day on the eve of the Sad Tokyo Olympics with a blossoming late-life crisis to contend with. It didn’t begin all at once as an existential hole; it began lightly…
My knee swelled up.
I told my running mate Malcolm Balk that maybe I have water-on-the-knee…
A group of luminaries from the AT scene had signed up for my “Alexander’s Story” workshop, where unbeknownst to them, I was also adding for the first time my concept of “The Compass” – based on J. G. Bennett’s book “Enneagram Studies”.
