Comments on: Weinerschnitzel or Trampoline? Pondering Performance vs. Enjoyment http://www.oberata.com/archive/2009/weinerschnitzel-or-trampoline-pondering-performance-vs-enjoyment.php "It is done in the doing." Thu, 15 Jul 2010 04:42:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Jeff http://www.oberata.com/archive/2009/weinerschnitzel-or-trampoline-pondering-performance-vs-enjoyment.php/comment-page-1#comment-174 Jeff Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:06:56 +0000 http://www.oberata.com/?p=1037#comment-174 Greetings Professor Falken! CPE1704TKS was the launch code if you need it. Yeah, that's a great point, Eric, about inner security and "owning ourselves." Do you have a book recommendation for the topic? Thanks for chiming in. JT Greetings Professor Falken! CPE1704TKS was the launch code if you need it.

Yeah, that’s a great point, Eric, about inner security and “owning ourselves.” Do you have a book recommendation for the topic?

Thanks for chiming in.

JT

]]> By: Eric http://www.oberata.com/archive/2009/weinerschnitzel-or-trampoline-pondering-performance-vs-enjoyment.php/comment-page-1#comment-173 Eric Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:53:33 +0000 http://www.oberata.com/?p=1037#comment-173 Jeff, Excellent writing as always. Pithy and very easy to relate to. I wonder if the overwhelming message we all get, starting in no less than kindergarten, about having to achieve something for our lives to be worth something isn't driven by an all pervasive monetary system that cannot live if people restrain themselves and accumulate less? That is to say, if we all felt secure in our being, perhaps we wouldn't feel so compelled to buy so much, have a life that requires buying, or dedicate as you say '90 hours' per week to doing so or admire those who do. Maybe the only thing we should try to own is ourselves. Who needs money for that? Maybe it's like in the movie War Games. The only winning move is not to play. Cause maybe balance is a myth in a game rigged to make it impossible, yet demanded. Jeff,
Excellent writing as always. Pithy and very easy to relate to. I wonder if the overwhelming message we all get, starting in no less than kindergarten, about having to achieve something for our lives to be worth something isn’t driven by an all pervasive monetary system that cannot live if people restrain themselves and accumulate less? That is to say, if we all felt secure in our being, perhaps we wouldn’t feel so compelled to buy so much, have a life that requires buying, or dedicate as you say ’90 hours’ per week to doing so or admire those who do.

Maybe the only thing we should try to own is ourselves. Who needs money for that?

Maybe it’s like in the movie War Games. The only winning move is not to play. Cause maybe balance is a myth in a game rigged to make it impossible, yet demanded.

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