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Another important metaphor, elaborated in Shakespeare and increasingly important in our age of mutual watching and self-observation, is life as a play (a narrative with actors and an audience). This metaphor is also easily applicable to almost any life, and offers even less agency than life-as-journey. If we are actors, we have not written our own narratives.
On Some Possibilities for Life as a Joke
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For every success there is a corresponding non-monetary tax of some kind. To maintain success you have to gladly pay these taxes.
101 Additional Advices
Kevin Kelly
He uses this to mountain bike, ice skate, and perform a host of other activities. Importantly, Brian is also an “active echolocater”. He purposely makes sounds (like clicking noises with his mouth) to create auditory reflections he can pick up. This fits perfectly with JJ Gibson’s idea of perception-action coupling – we don’t only perceive to act, we also act to perceive.
Learning to Optimize Movement
Rob Gray
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