Archive for November, 2007
Satisfied? Eight Stages of Experience #7
After we have engaged with something our attention returns to ourselves. There can be a tinge of sadness to this part of the process: we were totally focussed on something and now it turns out not to be everything but just something. It may be a beautiful or remarkable something; but what was [...]
Balance Not Pleasure.
It is a cliche that we seek to maximise pleasure and avoid pain. And like most cliches has elements of truth.
And yet . . .
There are so many seeming exceptions. Most of them involving putting off pleasure now for future reward. Sometimes, for instance in the case of elite athletes following a [...]
