But um I'd wish but you can speed it up by trying more things and just getting that insight into yourself of what do thyself you know that old ancient Greek maxim from the ancient Greek philosophers know thyself and just that
respectin let me tell you what I mean by this you know Socrates famously said you know to live the good life you need to know thyself right that's how you become a wise and have a happy life and be a wise person and we've always thought ofknowing thyself as being about introspection looking inside yourself that's the message that's been sold to
The idea of self knowledge and self inquiry was something that Socrates was really into. Know thyself . And I think that's the basis for a lot of forms of therapy as well today. Kind of having self awareness I think is how all of us kind of grow as people.
thyself right that's how you become a wise and have a happy life and be a wise person and we've always thought ofknowing thyself as being about introspection looking inside yourself that's the message that's been sold to us for the last century by Sigmund Freud all the way up to Oprah Winfrey and that kind of introspection and self-reflection really matters it's
make that sort of thing. But also just understanding oneself. I mean part of the you know there was this Greek admonition to know thyself . This was a sign they had in various places, various temples and stuff. But I think that becomes know thyelves. And the better we know ourselves, the more we can get rid
I am kind of a screamy drunk. Thou art thyself , though, not a Montague.
In the Jim Crow South, segregation did not literally mean the separation of races. "Tolerate thy neighbor as thyself " is not quite what Jesus said.
And so it's a good thing to refer to at least on your own. Love thy neighbor as thyself , even is in the Bible.
And the idea to be yourself is one of the most ancient precepts of happiness. And the words "know thyself " are inscribed at the temple of Apollo at Delphi. And we all know the Shakespeare quotation about "to thine own self be true".
She said, I'd love to go out with you. As Socrates said, know thyself .
but understand that when you take this focus from the amygdala to the insula, there's no muscles in your brain, but you're building up more gray matter. I mean, that was always know thyself .
That actually doesn't sound that hard, but very hard. And one of the early pieces I worked on was a woman named Pam and she writes a piece called "Heal Thyself ." And what happened was I met her sister, and her sister said to me, you need to get a hold of my sister.
"The mirror life beagle." Again, perfectly appropriate. We're not only-- it's kind of a "physician, heal thyself " situation. Chris and I need to work on this, as you can tell.
I think you should talk to her. So I did talk to her and I'm just going to read you the beginning of her piece, "Heal Thyself ." She's 28, so she's older in this range of 20-somethings. I found that the older you were in your 20s, the more you had to share or more willing you were to share what you had to offer.
For early modern men and women, you eat your food, it sits in the stomach, gets converted into blood, blood circulates around the body, ends up in the testicles, That's a nice little Latin phrase, nosce te ipsum, know thyself , which underpins the idea that you should really understand your body, understand how to keep it healthy.
There's a basic idea, I think, that all of you are familiar with. In the ancient Greek tradition, there was - over the temple of Delphi a saying, 'gnothi seauton'. That means "know thyself ." The basic idea is that in order for us to live lives of meaning, and purpose, and authenticity, we have to make an effort to understand ourselves.