Good Morning Digital Neighbors! Happy Monday ADD Irregulars, Friends, Refugees, Early Birds, Later Dayers, Conversants, Lurkers, PHAM, Dawn Patrol, Fascinating People, Triggeratti, Merry Bigots, Seekers of Sanity & Civility and all the rest of you Members and Supporters in these Local communities.
How a look at some more quotes from famous psychologists? Prior to reading this book of quotes I did not know or remembering encountering Kurt Lewin. Who is Kurt Lewin?
Kurt Lewin was a famous German-American psychologist. He is best known as a modern pioneer of social organization and applied psychology. He is often known as the founder of social psychology and the first to study organizational development and group dynamics. 1890 - 1947
Experience alone does not create knowledge.
Sad but true. You can ride the unreflective dumbshit wagon your entire life. Life you will provide you many lessons if you seek to move beyond your comfort zone, if you show any interest in things beyond self-interest or awaken curiosity in your searching. If you don't manage that, I doubt that one can learn much from life. That is foundational. Next comes the questioning of one's experience and it is in the questioning, the wrestling with the known and understood and the unknown and dubious that knowledge can begin to grow. Knowledge like science is open to further experience and reflection to update one's current understanding. Pride blinds us to what questioning and experience bring into the doubt by opening the door that my current understanding might be wrong, or at least incomplete. Happy Monday my friends & digital neighbors!
An old winter barn from somewhere
Today marks the three hundred and thirtieth birthday of the Frenchman François-Marie Arouet, better known by his nom de plume, Voltaire (1694-1778).
Born into a bourgeois family during the reign of Louis XIV, the “Sun King” (r. 1643-1715), Voltaire suffered tragedy at a young age when his mother died. Never close with his father or brother, Voltaire exhibited a rebellious attitude toward authority from his youth. His brilliant mind was fostered in the care of the Society of Jesus, who introduced him to the joys of literature and theater. Despite his later criticisms against the Church, Voltaire, throughout his life, fondly recalled his dedicated Jesuit teachers.
Although he spent time as a civil servant in the French embassy to the Hague, Voltaire’s main love was writing—an endeavor where he excelled in various genres, including poetry, which led to his appointment as the royal court poet for King Louis XV. Widely recognized as one of the greatest French writers, and even hyperbolically referred to by ...
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2026 Coffee Talk with the ADD Irregulars
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