Soul Exercise

I like the odd self-improvement books that feature games, and games that feature self-improvement card decks, insight exercises. One of the oddest of all was recently returned to me by a friend who’d borrowed it too long. The book is Kokology, “The Game of Self-Discovery.”

I think we must sometimes trick ourselves into understanding ourselves. Surely the meta of self-understanding is of necessity a magical state. As Arthur C. Clarke put it, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Insight into one’s own insight—meta insight—is certainly a matter by definition beyond our understanding. (Though we try.)

Body Rebuilding

Exercise is remedial.