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\u201cIf all you’re doing is chewing on your pencil, you might as well be gnawing on a\u00a0stick.\u201d<\/p><\/div>Greek thought is so much the water we swim in that we never think to think about it. We sort and reorganize and align and trim and we never wonder why we fuss so incessantly about “proper order,” when both words are entirely artifacts of the mind. Nature does not care if your pencils (ahem!) are sharpened, just your math teacher \u2013 or your boss.<\/p>\n
But Ovid reminds us that the man who is not prepared today will be even less so tomorrow, and I would add that the job that was done badly the last time will be done worse the next.<\/p>\n
The Greek ideal of a world without imperfections is absurd, and they knew that. The Christians ripped off the idea and called it heaven, but, regardless, there are still no real phenomena free of all defects.<\/p>\n
But that’s what a praxis \u2013 your<\/em> praxis \u2013 is for. A praxis is a practice you are actively working to get better at: Sound theory informing your efforts, measured results improving the theory, iteration after iteration. Your objective is to remove defects in your performance, as you identify them. When you can’t find anything else to fix, either find better eyes to judge your work or move up in the challenges you’re taking on.<\/p>\n And that, too, is a very Greek way of thinking. We malign the Greeks as dreamers, but to this day, our way of relentlessly pursuing perfection is the praxis we learned from them.<\/p>\n In other news:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Housing Wire:<\/strong> Home prices haven\u2019t risen this fast since 2005.<\/a><\/p>\n Redfin:<\/strong> The Wave of Pandemic-Era Relocations Continued in April, With Nearly 31% of Homebuyers Looking to Move to Another Metro.<\/a> CTRL-F ‘riot’; not found. Their own charts show the influence of the riots. Now that the pandemic lies are abating, will real estate demand die down as well? In conversation, I keep saying that near-term results in Phoenix hang on whether we have another “Summer of Love.” Everyone always laughs \u2013 an hypocrisy tell.<\/p>\n CNBC:<\/strong> Weekly mortgage demand falls as <\/a>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cIf all you’re doing is chewing on your pencil, you might as well be gnawing on a\u00a0stick.\u201dGreek thought is so much the water we swim in that we never think to think about it. We sort and reorganize and align and trim and we never wonder why we fuss so incessantly about “proper order,” when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,26,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-group-therapy","7":"category-lending","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18494,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18494\/overnight-news-we-live-in-a-greek-civilization-its-time-we-acted-like-it\/","url_meta":{"origin":18170,"position":0},"title":"Overnight News: We live in a Greek civilization. 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