tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1196651674832836865.post5345510204768038674..comments2023-10-20T06:31:29.919-05:00Comments on The Logic of Long Distance: On Art, Intelligence, and TrainingJeff Edmondshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11840746835757479590noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1196651674832836865.post-49744433699152477212011-11-09T13:34:48.467-06:002011-11-09T13:34:48.467-06:00You are definitely a weirdo, yep.You are definitely a weirdo, yep.Jeff Edmondshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11840746835757479590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1196651674832836865.post-28432564907247515692011-11-06T11:57:01.651-06:002011-11-06T11:57:01.651-06:00The problem with thinking for yourself is that you...The problem with thinking for yourself is that you wake up one day and realize that you're a weirdo. This happened to me several years ago. I decided to embrace it with good humor.Zach VanderVeenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02442507412891534071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1196651674832836865.post-78121045067493910452011-11-03T14:01:51.698-05:002011-11-03T14:01:51.698-05:00Thanks for the comment, Scout. I think you can see...Thanks for the comment, Scout. I think you can see in Dewey the influences of Stoicism in this emphasis on building something that works as a whole. I imagine your work in systems analysis also looks at these issues.<br /><br />One point that Dewey makes in Art as Experience is modern life is hostile to aesthetic unity in its dual emphasis on multi-tasking and specialization. (These of course go hand in hard, and can result in narrow lives of distraction. Contemporary ways of running don't escape these problems, and it can be a narrow pursuit. But interestingly once you go deep enough into an activity, it seems to open out onto so many other things. When this happens, it can center a person and offer glimpses of aesthetic unity that can be launching points for wider living harmonies.Jeff Edmondshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11840746835757479590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1196651674832836865.post-24437712122683554092011-11-03T08:17:24.515-05:002011-11-03T08:17:24.515-05:00Nice. I have always thought training as divided b...Nice. I have always thought training as divided between the how (the philosophy) and the what (the plan). The how instructs the what; it provides general thoughts, ideas, and structures or frameworks for your approach to training. The what builds off those frameworks, fleshing it out with a schedule of specific workouts that are designed and selected to move you towards your goal. Based on that, it's often easy to identify those who have not developed their training philosophy; they have a grab bag of workouts picked from various sources, with no real thought put into how they work together.<br /><br />I liken it to the story of the three blind men who come across an elephant. Each of them is feeling a different part of the elephant, and thinks he can derive the whole object from that one piece. However, none of them is able to come to the understanding that what they have encountered is more than the sum of its parts, and therefore is an entirely different entity than what each believes. The dissection of the object, the system, and subsequent separation of its components leaves us with a lesser understanding of how the whole works together.Scout7http://thoughtsofrandomme.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com