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Clujso (David)
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Now I get why Nick and Zak from the Nomad Partnership had a shared obsession with the Art and Zen of Motorcycle Maintenance. I’m about halfway into it, and here’s some thoughts: The book is tragic, yet beautiful. Robert chats about Phaedrus, his previous self. Robert (Phaedrus) was a professor, who suffered tragic mental health issues which resulted in electric neurological treatments that cured him, but at the cost of splitting his personality. It essentially erased his previous self. The book chats about his travels with his kid to places his previous self would be at, and chatting with people he used to be with. It’s reads like fiction, but it’s not. If you enjoy the series Severance, it’s a similar concept.
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The most remarkable highlight I have is a conversation he had with an old friend: “That which produces peace of mind is good maintenance; that which disturbs it is poor maintenance. What we call workability of the machine is just an objectifisation of this peace of mind. The ultimate test’s always your own serenity. If you don’t have this when you start and maintain it while you’re working you’re likely to build your personal problems right into the machine.” “Look at a novice workman, or a bad workman and compare his expression with that of a craftsman whose work you know is excellent and you’ll see the difference. The craftsman isn’t ever following a single line of instruction. He’s making decisions as he goes along. For that reason he’ll be absorbed and attentive to what he’s doing even though he doesn’t deliberatly contrive this. His motions and the machine are kind of in harmony.”
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