Book Summary: Zen and the Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance is a book on philosophy disguised as a story about a road trip.
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How Should We Live? – Roman Krznaric
Quotes:
The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.
You look at where you’re going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you’ve been and a pattern seems to emerge.
Sometimes it’s a little better to travel than to arrive
Zen and the Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance Book Summary Notes:
- Western thought consists of two halves. The classical, more scientific thoughts and the romantic or emotional side of thinking.
- Romantics are typically driven by emotional, inspirational, creative, imaginative and intuitive.
- More classical minds tend towards classifying and dividing their perceptions of the world based on their characteristics. To neatly box everything into proper categories.
- The quality approach is the middle road between the two opposing views. Incorporating aspects of each.
