Learning from dirty jobs
- Kind
- Speech
- Date
- Dec 2008
- Publisher
- Ted Talks
- Retrieved
- Nov 30, 2013
2 memes from this reference
"Follow Your Passion" is Terrible Advice
So I started to wonder what would happen if we challenged some of these sacred cows. Follow your passion -- we've been talking about it here for the last 36 hours. Follow your passion -- what could possibly be wrong with that? Probably the worst advice I ever got. (Laughter) You know, follow your dreams and go broke…
Anagnorises and Peripetia
OK, I'm still in "Poetics," in Aristotle, and I'm thinking -- out of nowhere, two terms come crashing into my head that I haven't heard since my classics professor in college drilled them there. And they are anagnorisis and peripeteia. Anagnorisis and peripeteia. Anagnorisis is the Greek word for discovery. Literally…