Zettelkasten revelations anybody?

Marcel_Liauw

As indicated in my introductory post (and not unlike Edmund in his most recent post), I look for surprising revelations when going to my zettelkasten. I have made one zettel "zettelkasten revelations", a screenshot of which I paste below. Not rocket science yet, but getting there. I wonder what your most impressive nuggets were when being surprised by your zettelkasten.

andang76

Without explaining them, leaving the readers' curiosity :-)

• I never thought I’d connect Taylor Swift to Mortimer Adler
• I managed to make a loop connecting the autopoiesis of the Zettelkasten to the movie Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
• One meter a day and I can achieve results I could only dream of at first
• I realized that keeping a journal about my running activity helps me grow as an athlete
• I AM a runner and a vegetarian, not someone who just uses these tools to maintain their weight

Sascha

In no order:

• How to teach my daughter the concept of "no" when she was 8 months old
• The strange dichotomy between raising children and self-responsibility (which leads to the difference between training and raising a child)
• That nature is not typically depicted as feminine but nature as force, while nature often is personified masculine. (in myth)
• That Gandalf and Dungeon Master (the old series Dungeons and Dragons) are the exact same archetype to preserve the agency of the protagonists.
• That the assault bike is far superior to the bike erg for cardio vascular adaptations and the current best is the Arc Trainer (expensive)
• That what so-called theories are very often models (e.g. Luhmann's opus magnum)
• That knowledge (in a narrow philosophical sense) indeed is not the goal of epistemic work but truth.
• That optimal experience is not identical with flow as Csíkszentmihályi states.
• Joy is orthogonal to pain and pleasure.
• The problem of acrasia is part of the human condition by necessity
• Habit work is part of the meaning work designed to deal with the existential problem (as laid out by the French existentialists)
• That stimulus refining is at the foundation of the zero-sum game that we play with each other as producers and consumers.
• There is a problem with using logic in communication. Logic is far less convincing and even if you "proof" something being correct or wrong, the chances for acceptance are fairly slim, even (or sometimes especially) in intellectual circles.

harr

Following @andang76's example, no explanations. :-)

• I made a connection between tourist guides, desert camels and ferroequinology
• Note-writing skills and mnemonic skills strengthen each other
• I write notes to improve my knowledge of the world, not for the sake of writing notes
• My favorite episodes of Lie to Me were written by the same screenwriter
• Nietzsche's geistige Aristokratie is a self-control aristocracy (Heath)
• The Bible command "Do not judge" has more in common with metta and sati, than with thin-slicing and taxonomies
• I want to learn the art of asking the right questions
• How to read a book? Good question!
• "Das gute Schreiben erzieht das gute Denken" (Cornelia Klinger)
• I enjoy rereading some books from time to time
• Not everyone shares my interest in history and the sources of shared knowledge
• Luhmann had a fine sense of humor