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When I first\u00a0moved to the States I lived\u00a0in Ohio and had to\u00a0buy a car. Now, for starters, I had only been in a driver’s seat\u00a0about three times previously while\u00a0getting my driver’s license in Europe ( i wouldn’t call that driving )\u00a0– my knowledge of cars was\u00a0limited to general knowledge about\u00a0a car \u00a0– front, back and wheels below. With\u00a0very limited resources and had to buy anything that moved really for around a thousand\u00a0dollars. Had I not been stupid about it – i would never have bought an adorable, stick shift Audi Quattro 1997 that had the windows fall down while I was driving mid-winter on the highway. If I were smart about it – I would have taken the\u00a0bus\u00a0and would have skipped the part with trying to hold the middle of the lane ( not hitting nearby cars ),\u00a0crying my eyes out while trying to merge into traffic\u00a0on a bridge between Ohio and Kentucky.<\/p>\n
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Until this day I cannot touch stick shift with a ten foot pole. So what happened to the silly Audi? Well, owing to the fact that I lived\u00a0on the border between the good and the bad parts of town\u00a0– someone slammed into it with full force and then run away (\u00a0they never found the culprit, obviously drunk driving in the early\u00a0hours of the morning ). The Audi got totaled and\u00a0\u00a0State Farm\u00a0gave me three thousand dollars compensation, which i used to move to California and start my career as a digital artist there.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n … <\/p>\n If you look at the Star Wars universe – it is a well-used world, with cracks and scratches and battle damage. In\u00a0Wabi-sabi\u00a0it is called the “appreciation of the ingenuous integrity of natural objects and processes”.. <\/em>Leonard Koren\u00a0says\u00a0wabi-sabi is\u00a0\u00a0“the most conspicuous and characteristic feature of traditional Japanese beauty and it occupies roughly the same position in the Japanese\u00a0pantheon of aesthetic values as do the Greek ideals of beauty and perfection in the West.”<\/em> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n …<\/p>\n Stupid is the other side of the Mastery coin. When you are stupid you act without having made the necessary calculations, which is exactly what you do when you have mastered a craft, an art or a process.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This is\u00a0what Sadhguru says intuition does\u00a0– allows you to\u00a0skip the calculations because, in case of mastery, you have accumulated enough information and skills that will enable you to enter a state of flow. Often times you do not have all the data – you do not have all the information available to you. You will need to make decision based on very little information. At the same time you may have not enough time to do the calculations. this is when intuition steps in. Not enough information, and not enough time\u00a0–\u00a0( short of course of hurting yourself of others )\u00a0I have always relied\u00a0on being\u00a0stupid.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A picnic set !<\/p>\n <\/p>\n George was one of the most generous employers I have had – in addition to a six figure compensation and having my dream job, free life drawing and sculpture classes, cafeteria with sushi chefs, costume parties complete with indoor luna park, George regularly dispatched gifts to employees. I know for certain that anyone that has ever worked for George, for… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,130,8,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-george-lucas","category-the-book-i-am-writing","category-star-wars","category-lucasfilm","post_format-post-format-image","xfolkentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nSpeaking of stupid –\u00a0there is a theory in Japanese and Korean aesthetics where imperfections,\u00a0\u00a0accidental damage ( like cracks in pottery ), \u00a0roughness and irregularity are highly valued. There is the art of\u00a0Kintsugi\u00a0and\u00a0Wabi-sabi.<\/p>\n
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