Great little book this. The following extract is so outrageously audacious it still takes my breath away. All about spirit of course. Where there are no rules.
BEING right is based upon knowledge & experience & is often provable.
Knowledge comes from the past so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality.
Experience is built from solutions to old situations & problems. The old situations are probably different from the present ones, so that old solutions will have to be bent to fit new problems (& possibly fit badly). Also the likelihood is that, if you've got the experience, you'll probably use it.
This is lazy.
Experience is the opposite of being creative.
If you can prove you're right, you're set in concrete. You cannot move with the times or with other people.
Being right is also being boring. Your mind is closed. You are not open to new ideas. You are rooted in your own rightness, which is arrogant. Arrogance is a valuable tool, but only if used very sparingly.
Worst of all, being right has a tone of morality about it. To be anything else sounds weak or fallible, & people who are right would hate to be thought fallible.
So: it's wrong to be right, because people who are right are rooted in the past, rigid-minded, dull & smug.
There's no talking to them.
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