CRI 600 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Mantra
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Today"s mantra: do what you love, love what you do . Sehnsucht (german): a pleasurable yearning for some utopian thing/place. Picture of a living room that has been blogged/tumbl"d/reposted is described by this word, and fits the do what you love aspect. Problem w/ dwyl : leads to devaluation of work and dehumanization of many workers. Gives site for why should you be paid for it if loving what you do should be pay enough? . If profit does not follow, then it must be because the worker"s passion was insufficient. Dwyl creed and steve jobs: put magnificent emphasis on happiness connecting to. You in his speech to grad class 2005 stanford. By portraying apple as the product of his own indiv. Love, he devalued the work of everyone actually making the products. Dwyl is really self-focused to the point of narcissism . Henry david thoreau"s life w/out principle : society can/should make work both well- compensated and meaningful.