Category: This is all a test

Everything about life etc.

Retirement…

Posted on by William Kerr in This is all a test

…and wondering why some artists don’t retire.

Artists, commonly referring to people involved with the arts, work creatively with their imagination, personal style, and self-expression.

In working this way, one can see why artists don’t retire. A person rarely wakes up one morning or decides after a meeting with their accountant that they’ve had it with expressing themselves, and that it’s time to retire.

What about everyone else?

Maybe widening the meaning of the word art and artist to encompass using creativity, imagination, personal style, and self-expression to anything and everything a person might do changes the context of retirement.

And then what would happen?

P.S.: This blog post was conceived and written by me, with no AI assistance, and is a reflection and mosaic of my experiences, reading, and ongoing learning.

One’s opinion is just that…

Posted on by William Kerr in This is all a test, Work and Working

…an opinion, if it’s distinguished that way.

From Charlie Munger’s view on opinions, Shane Parrish has written that, “The real cost of an opinion isn’t having it – it’s doing the work required to earn it. This work is what most people avoid.”

If we hold on to an opinion as if it’s the truth, no matter how much work we’ve put into earning it, we lose the freedom of what it means to have an opinion and the relationships that opinions generate become fragmented. It becomes, I’m right and you or someone else is wrong.

Much of the conflict in our personal relationships, work environments, national politics, or geopolitical interactions seems to be a result of opinions being taken as the truth and not as just opinions.

In our personal and work lives, if opinions can remain and be distinguished as just opinions, with no one being right and no one being wrong because an opinion is brought forth as the truth, space might be created to get at what the issue/discussion is really about, instead of argument and division.

P.S.: This blog post was conceived and written by me, with no AI assistance, and is a reflection and mosaic of my experiences, reading, and ongoing learning.

No matter how crazy it gets…

Posted on by William Kerr in This is all a test

…and it seems like there’s very little anyone can actually do to change or improve things.

It’s useful to keep in mind that no matter where one finds oneself, a difference can always be made, somehow/somewhere within a situation.

This gives us a chance to see what might be available, even if change or improvement isn’t possible at the moment.

P.S.: This blog post was conceived and written by me, with no AI assistance, and is a reflection and mosaic of my experiences, reading, and ongoing learning.