There’s an old analogy to a cup of tea. If you want to drink new tea you have to get rid of the old tea that’s in the cup, otherwise your cup just overflows and you get a wet mess. Your head is like that cup. It has a limited capacity and if you want to learn something about the world you should keep your head empty in order to learn it. It’s very easy to spend your whole life swishing old tea around in your cup thinking it’s great stuff because you’ve never really tried anything new, because you could never get it in, because the old stuff prevented its entry because you were so sure the old stuff was so good, because you never really tried anything new…on and on in an endless circular pattern.
From Robert Pirsig’s Lila
Behold – justification for my habit of constantly writing seemingly meaningless bits of information down and filling all sorts of notebooks and steno pads and making all kinds of text files, etc. Vindication! YES!!!!
Anyhow, I just thought that was cool when I read it and thought I’d share it here. Good stuff. Other than that, though, not a whole lot to say today…
