Just learned of the Dunning-Kruger effect - the greater our proficiency, the more clearly we recognize the possibilities of our limitations and juxtaposed in this book by Sarah Lewis with this notion that many great artists - Michaelangelo, Kafka - have unfinished works, some frustration in failing to capture what they wished, apparently completed to the outside world but not meeting what the inner eye envisions. And that got me returning to Lesley Hazletons notion of the doubt essential to faith, how theres perhaps something really poignant and beautiful about the notion of incompleteness that doubt is a part of, that perhaps part of the reason its essential to faith is because it mirrors a bit of our own incompleteness as human beings, and how that sense is woven into everything beautiful and dear, even (perhaps especially) love. That theres something about almost... (Somehow like I feel Ive almost captured something with this post and yet have fallen a bit short. :p)
Posted on: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 05:49:32 +0000
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