I am used to always having a longer term goal and right now I don’t have one so I am perforce trying to see what it’s like to live without one
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Replying to @EmanuelDerman
Better to choose one, I think. Thurber was right in his analysis of these things (see his superb fable, "The Moth and the Star.") More important to strive toward something ambitious than to attain it. Einstein concurred, which is impressive as well. How about learning more math?
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Replying to @MathPrinceps
I’ll look up that Thurber. I am making myself learn some things but I don’t have any so-called product at the end, which is fine but still a bit anomalous for me.
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Replying to @EmanuelDerman
I think the most interesting goal is often that of developing a deep intellectual sympathy with someone who has seen very far into the future, and taken the trouble to make his or her vision intelligible and influential. How do these mystic seers do it?
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Perhaps this goal is a bit indefinite in comparison with, say, reducing the time in which one can complete some specific physical exertion. But that very indefiniteness gives to the struggle a sort of inexhaustible appeal. It doesn't get boring.
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