“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue.”

Set the timer (5-30 min), take 20 seconds of prep if you like, start talking. Jot your thoughts onto the sticky-note board.

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• Shakespeare's Hamlet has the power to take revenge yet endlessly delays, thinks, weighs. Does overthinking kill action; is awareness sometimes a form of paralysis?
• Nietzsche's eternal recurrence: if you were condemned to live your exact life, with all its pain, over and over for eternity, could you say yes to it? Is that a curse or a test?
• In Greek myth, Tantalus reaches forever for the fruit above him and the water at his feet, and both pull away every time. Why is unreachable desire the most refined form of torture?
• All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog.
• Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.