No because the main argument of the book is that there comes a point of thoughtless, grinding, ineffective dutifulness that becomes tunnel visioned, and at that point keeping at the duty isn't duty, it's just stupid. And actually, by then, part of what you can't see anymore is that the duty may have changed and grown and you've been going at it all wrong. See the excerpt I quoted above. Which I agree with, more or less.
Not really because she didn't actually sell me on that in this book. I got maybe 1/3 of the way there, and I could see the channels where my thoughts ought to have been running, but they just weren't when Dag made his choice.
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Date: 2007-10-27 02:50 am (UTC)No because the main argument of the book is that there comes a point of thoughtless, grinding, ineffective dutifulness that becomes tunnel visioned, and at that point keeping at the duty isn't duty, it's just stupid. And actually, by then, part of what you can't see anymore is that the duty may have changed and grown and you've been going at it all wrong. See the excerpt I quoted above. Which I agree with, more or less.
Not really because she didn't actually sell me on that in this book. I got maybe 1/3 of the way there, and I could see the channels where my thoughts ought to have been running, but they just weren't when Dag made his choice.