Be Curious, Not Judgmental | Walt Whitman | Art Print (11x14)

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Not houses of peace are you, nor any nor all of their prosperity; if need be you shall have every one of those houses to destroy them; Pollution of the Global Information Ecosystem The contamination of information with false and misleading material And so today I want to talk to you about Ted Lasso, the absolute best show that not enough people seems to be watching. It’s on Apple TV+ which, again, few people seem to have even though everybody owns Apple products and that gets you a free subscription. It’s also the home of series like The Morning Show (excellent) and Tehran (gripping!) I get it – there are too many television platforms and you don’t want to have to log-in to another thing. I know. I know! Our minds are meaning-making machines, constantly making assumptions, judgements, and looking for patterns. This is not an inherently bad trait – it kept humans safe as we evolved for a very long time. However, interpersonally these same tendencies may not serve us as well. Our internal narratives can be filled with bias, can be self-destructive, or can result in hurting someone else. At the end of the day, our judgments can be the lens through which we understand the world and that lens is foggy at best, opaque at worst.

There was a kind of labor agitator here today—a socialist, or something like that: young, a rather beautiful boy — full of enthusiasms: the finest type of the man in earnest about himself and about life. I was sorry to see him come: I am somehow afraid of agitators, though I believe in agitation: but I was more sorry to see him go than come. Some people are so much sunlight to the square inch. I am still bathing in the cheer he radiated. ... Cheer! cheer! Is there anything better in this world anywhere than cheer — just cheer? Any religion better? — any art? Just cheer!The same way awe feels like, I guess. And wonder. And fascination. And having a question that you don’t have an answer to (sometimes).

Knowledge Café: Ideal Number of Participants ** The ideal number of participants is between 12 and 24While consistently attributed to Whitman, this popular motivational quote has no source. It is occasionally listed as occurring in Leaves of Grass, but the closest phrase found in that collection is "Be not curious about God." That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world. Quotes [ edit ] I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty. I rank Muriel Rukeyser with Walt Whitman, the essential American poet, democratic at the level of hope.