“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.”

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

similar topics

• Moral luck: can we be blamed for outcomes beyond our control? Is it fair to judge the drunk driver who crashes differently from the one who makes it home safely, when their intentions were exactly the same?
• When modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the state always change with them.
• The future you will have completely different desires and values from the you of today. So the promises you make and the things you save up are really for a stranger you have never met. Why do you owe them anything?
• One writer argued that the point of art is the process of struggling, not the final product. If a machine produces something indistinguishable from art, does how it was made still matter?
• The child in the basement: if the happiness of thousands depended on the constant suffering of a single child, would you accept that happiness? Can the misery of one innocent ever legitimize the wellbeing of a whole society?