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I loved this speech. After reading it I just wanted to go out and change everything, but most importantly I wanted to change how I think. DFW makes great points and he basically tells you that the world doesn't revolve around you *gasp!*. I would definitely recommend this speech to anyone and everyone. Its a short read so it won't take up too much of your time. But at the end, you'll wish you had read it sooner.
Il primo racconto, l'ultimo discorso.
the constant gnawing sense of having had and lost some infinite thing
I paradossi, le situazioni assurde, le risate, le sfide che ti lancia come lettore ed essere umano.
the constant gnawing sense of having had and lost some infinite thing
I paradossi, le situazioni assurde, le risate, le sfide che ti lancia come lettore ed essere umano.
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The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.
Self-centered people don’t think/write this way </3 Self-centered people don’t perceive this kind of freedom or water.
A tiny book, probably unnecessarily in the book format. But this talk itself has been, since I first read it 4 years ago, my manifesto, if only aspirationally. It's even more powerful when you remember that he ultimately lost the battle with his own mind, ending in his suicide at age 46.
In the event you don't want to shell out the cash, which doesn't do Dave any good now that he's dead, you can, for the time being, read the address at the Web Archive.
In the event you don't want to shell out the cash, which doesn't do Dave any good now that he's dead, you can, for the time being, read the address at the Web Archive.
I can understand why this is a classic. The most comforting short read I read in a while. Highly recommend to all the soon-to-be graduates.
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Best party read I’ve ever listened to
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This “book” read more like a sermon instead of a commencement address. I think it’s the lack of personal anecdotes and the fact that it deals with something more philosophical. However, what gives it so much power is that it’s still VERY personal in tone. Granted, I read this in book form, rather than heard it in his own voice, so maybe I’m imprinting my own thoughts about the topic as well as my knowledge of DFW onto his tone. The fact that he mentions the idea of shooting oneself in the head twice is haunting, knowing that his own struggles with depression. He mentions the “day-in day-out” mundaneness, and it makes me feel like this was something he struggled with. And for him, to cope with that, he sought to look beyond his own reality presented to him by his default brain and tried to explore the myriad realities. But maybe I’m overthinking and trying to psychoanalyze the author too much.
What DFW talks about feels very in line with post-modern thinking imo. That you have to be comfortable with your truth not being THE truth, and being open-minded to see other worldviews and thus realities as valid, and possibly the true true. It’s something that probably most people who’ve changed religions or many immigrants, particularly from previously colonized areas, have thought about or been forcefully confronted with. So all in all, it’s a nice speech with smart analogies.
What DFW talks about feels very in line with post-modern thinking imo. That you have to be comfortable with your truth not being THE truth, and being open-minded to see other worldviews and thus realities as valid, and possibly the true true. It’s something that probably most people who’ve changed religions or many immigrants, particularly from previously colonized areas, have thought about or been forcefully confronted with. So all in all, it’s a nice speech with smart analogies.