Questions NOV 18

1. What does research show about impatient driving? Does this also apply to those of us who are impatient with drivers who go too recklessly and fast? Do you experience frustration (or rage) behind the wheel? How do you manage it? 162
2. Have you experienced, or worried about falling prey to, a vicious addictive spiral? 168 Do you have any advice for those who have or who do? (Ask me about This Naked Mind...)
3. What was Jennifer Roberts' initial art history assignment? 174 Would you do it? Have you ever done anything comparable? What did that teach you?
4. What's Peck's insight? Is there anything in your life to which it might apply? 179
5. What does it mean to "stay on the bus," creatively and otherwise? 183 
6. What is "Super Mario's" misunderstanding about the value of time? What sort of good is it, in Burkeman's view? 186-7
7. Have you been, or are you tempted to become, a digital nomad? What are you risking, if you do? 189
8. What's a fika? Do you ever take one, or need one? 191-2
9. "That's no holiday, if you have to celebrate it by yourself." 193 Agree? (And do you have Thanksgiving plans this year?) 
10. Do you regularly engage in any form of collective ritual or coordinated action? Have you experienced "the sacred place where the boundaries of the self grow fuzzy"? 196
11. Was Hannah Arendt right, and prophetic? 200
12. Did the pandemic offer a silver lining of "bittersweet gratitude" or a "possibility shock" for you, in any respect? 205-7  How can we lock in such lessons before reverting back to the old normal? 
13. Do you think the cosmos itself has a significance? If so, don't we share in that? Does it matter, for this, that our lives transpire in the relative blink of an eye? 208-9
14. Are you okay with the likelihood that you probably won't be another Mozart or Einstein? 212 (After all, Mozart and Einstein weren't an earlier you.)

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How to add links, embed videos etc. in final report posts (post early drafts at will, final draft due Dec.10)--

To insert links:
1. Highlight a word or phrase in your text
2. Click on the link icon
3. Paste the URL address of the site or passage you want to link to
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Videos: in Blogger, after clicking on "New Post"--
1. Copy the URL of the video you want to share.
2. Click on "More options" on the far right of the toolbar above, then Insert Video icon (3d from left)
3. Select YouTube
4. Select Search 5. Paste the URL & Select it
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To insert graphics, either just copy-&-paste... OR, click on the "insert image" icon (to the right of the link icon, to the left of the "insert video" icon) and select the appropriate option
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To embed Google Books pages:
1. Find the book you want to embed.
2. Select Preview
3. Select (click on) the page you want to embed.
4. Click More Actions (the three vertical dots in the upper right)
5. Select Embed (unless you just want to link the page)
6. Copy the code
7. In edit mode on blogger, select the pen icon in the upper left and click on HTML view
8. Paste the code
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Familiarize yourself with the edit icons in the drop-down menu (link, insert image, insert video, etc.) Always make sure, after you Publish, that the formatting is correct on the blogsite. If not, click More options (the three horizontal dots in the upper right) and then Clear Formatting on the far right (the T with a diagonal slash).

Or it can, if... But this seems to be too big an if for many. That's why I keep repeating Marc's mantra about the precious privilege of breathing, thinking, enjoying, loving…
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This passage in our Happiness text today almost redeems "Friend Heidegger" (as my old Mizzou undergrad prof, Alex von Schoenborn, used to call the Third Reich's favorite academic foot soldier--he was "Führer-rector" of Freiburg University when he joined the National Socialist party):

"…if you can hold your attention, however briefly or occasionally, on the sheer astonishingness of being, and on what a small amount of that being you get—you may experience a palpable shift in how it feels to be here, right now, alive in the flow of time. (Or as the flow of time, a Heideggerian might say.) From an everyday standpoint, the fact that life is finite feels like a terrible insult, "a sort of personal affront, a taking-away of one's time," in the words of one scholar. There you were, planning to live on forever—as the old Woody Allen line has it, not in the hearts of your countrymen, but in your apartment—but now here comes mortality, to steal away the life that was rightfully yours.

Yet, on reflection, there's something very entitled about this attitude. Why assume that an infinite supply of time is the default, and mortality the outrageous violation? Or to put it another way, why treat four thousand weeks as a very small number, because it's so tiny compared with infinity, rather than treating it as a huge number, because it's so many more weeks than if you had never been born? Surely only somebody who'd failed to notice how remarkable it is that anything is, in the first place, would take their own being as such a given—as if it were something they had every right to have conferred upon them, and never to have taken away. So maybe it's not that you've been cheated out of an unlimited supply of time; maybe it's almost incomprehensibly miraculous to have been granted any time at all."
— Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman

Redeems is too strong. This complicates the legacy. The old Roman Emperor had a complicated legacy too. And we're just lucky to be here thinking about it at all.

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