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7 Apr 2021
1hr 18mins
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Dana Gioia on Becoming an Information Billionaire
7 Apr 2021
1hr 18mins
Quote
"Consider, conserve & create. Look at all of the achievements of the past, figure out what it is we save, and what it is we need to add to move forward."
Ideas
1
Dana thinks that poetry has a social function, but thinks it's a relatively complicated & subtle one.
The reason we have art is to increase human happiness. On an individual level, a work of art awakens you to the possibilities of your own potential, it takes that potential and enlargens and refines it, And each art does it in it's own way.
Music for your auditory senses, painting is visual. Poetry is our language and emotional functions.
That's on an individual basis, when you do that on a social level, over time, you create people that are better aware who they are, how they feel, their ability to articulate it and recognise it empathetically in other people.
Music for your auditory senses, painting is visual. Poetry is our language and emotional functions.
That's on an individual basis, when you do that on a social level, over time, you create people that are better aware who they are, how they feel, their ability to articulate it and recognise it empathetically in other people.
1
Dana thinks that poetry has a social function, but thinks it's a relatively complicated & subtle one.
The reason we have art is to increase human happiness. On an individual level, a work of art awakens you to the possibilities of your own potential, it takes that potential and enlargens and refines it, And each art does it in it's own way.
Music for your auditory senses, painting is visual. Poetry is our language and emotional functions.
That's on an individual basis, when you do that on a social level, over time, you create people that are better aware who they are, how they feel, their ability to articulate it and recognise it empathetically in other people.
Music for your auditory senses, painting is visual. Poetry is our language and emotional functions.
That's on an individual basis, when you do that on a social level, over time, you create people that are better aware who they are, how they feel, their ability to articulate it and recognise it empathetically in other people.
2
Whenever Dana reviews books of poetry, he asks himself 3 questions:
1. What is the writer doing
2. How well does the writer do it
3. How worthwhile was the thing that they wanted to do
Sometimes you see people do marvelous jobs of things that aren't worth the effort.
It's important to make sure you've considered all 3 of these questions, particularly the 3rd one before ing.
2. How well does the writer do it
3. How worthwhile was the thing that they wanted to do
Sometimes you see people do marvelous jobs of things that aren't worth the effort.
It's important to make sure you've considered all 3 of these questions, particularly the 3rd one before ing.
2
Whenever Dana reviews books of poetry, he asks himself 3 questions:
1. What is the writer doing
2. How well does the writer do it
3. How worthwhile was the thing that they wanted to do
Sometimes you see people do marvelous jobs of things that aren't worth the effort.
It's important to make sure you've considered all 3 of these questions, particularly the 3rd one before ing.
2. How well does the writer do it
3. How worthwhile was the thing that they wanted to do
Sometimes you see people do marvelous jobs of things that aren't worth the effort.
It's important to make sure you've considered all 3 of these questions, particularly the 3rd one before ing.
3
Get out of the daily ephemeral culture and immerse yourself into things that are going to be still there 10 years later or 100 years later.
I think the distractions for younger people today are so extreme that they learn very little about the past.
Therefore, they learn very little about the present, because you can't understand anything unless you have a point by which to judge it as a point of perspective.
Therefore, they learn very little about the present, because you can't understand anything unless you have a point by which to judge it as a point of perspective.
3
Get out of the daily ephemeral culture and immerse yourself into things that are going to be still there 10 years later or 100 years later.
I think the distractions for younger people today are so extreme that they learn very little about the past.
Therefore, they learn very little about the present, because you can't understand anything unless you have a point by which to judge it as a point of perspective.
Therefore, they learn very little about the present, because you can't understand anything unless you have a point by which to judge it as a point of perspective.
Questions
1
Can you think of something that you did well but it wasn't worth the effort of doing in the first place?
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Can you think of something that you did well but it wasn't worth the effort of doing in the first place?
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