D Language Foundation Weekly Planning Session Update

[WilliamJames]

On Monday, 15 May 2023 at 15:40:29 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Monday, 15 May 2023 at 12:19:26 UTC, ag0aep6g wrote:
>
>>
>> So it's kinda like the "Where do you see yourself in five 
>> years?" question.
>
> It's deeper than that. And that's why I didn't want to say 
> anything about the details of it in a forum post. All of us had 
> the wrong first impression when we started the program. It 
> takes a bit of self-reflection to discover your IVY statement. 
> And I use "discover" intentionally. It's not a matter of 
> pondering where you see yourself in the future. It's a process 
> of understanding what motivates you on the path you're 
> following *now*.

An alternative perspective, that could be argued, is that the 
concept of an 'individual self' is more like a disease, and that 
the way out of it, is to keep as busy as we can thinking of 
things and of other people, or preoccupied with a constructive 
passion of some kind.

In this view, the self does not matter. It's just tedious egotism.