Tag: Science

The Pursuit Of Ignorance

Happiness, Success, The Pathway To Fulfilment

I took this title from this TED Talk about science and education and how the best way to educate and pursue science is to explore what we do not know. It should not be the collecting of facts and showing the ability to repeat them on command.

This applies to our lives too. We usually know very little about how to live a fulfilling life, because no one teaches us how to find this out. We don’t really know what questions to ask or what parts of ourselves to explore.

The guidance is there in religious texts and writings on philosophy and psychology, but we are not exposed to them in our education. Or if we are, we are not given guidance on what questions to ask. In some cultures and religions we are told “This is the way” and are expected to follow it.

My advice is to read widely, use a journal to explore ideas and get to know different kinds of people. Learn what it is like to walk in another person’s shoes and then learn how to walk in your own. Your life is a journey, so don’t spend your life living in a cul-de-sac.

Art Is I; Science Is We

Achieving Goals, Success

This is a quote by Claude Bernard, a French Scientist, and it reflects the two modes of being human; to create individually for the purposes of creating is Art; to create individually or together for the collective good is Science. For me the best Art blurs the line between these two, because some Art changes society.

Art can also be how you live your life, how you interact with people. Leaving a person uplifted after your interaction with them is Art. Solving a person’s problem in the way only you could is Art. It is turning an interaction, a collection of ideas, an opportunity of any kind into something that makes a life or the world better. It is creation in its best sense.

You can change the world for the better. We can change the world for the better. It does not necessarily matter which, only that the lives of others are blessed by your presence. Go be an artist my friend.