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| Name | Roll the Dice by Charles Bukowski (read by Tom O'Bedlam) |
| Video Uploader | Video From SpokenVerse |
| Upload Date | This Video Uploaded At 12-02-2012 07:58:44 |
| Video Discription | Buk is talking about "delayed gratification" the motivation most parents try to instil into their children. Do your homework now because it will bring greater rewards later in life. Why Buk calls this "Roll the Dice" seems an inconsistency. Maybe it's because there's no real certainty that work will bring rewards. The most pithy remark on gambling I have heard comes from Pushkin's The Queen of Spades. They try to inveigle Herman, the young German officer, into gambling but he refuses: "Play interests me very much, but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous." Individuals like Herman are described as "present biased" in behavioral analysis. The study of whether one is willing to exchange a something now for something more later is called "hyperbolic discounting". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic_discounting One should not, of course, venture what is essential, but when what might be won would be life-changing, and what might be lost would hardly make matters worse, then perhaps it is worth taking the risk. It happens in medicine: surgery is always a gamble but when it is successful it can make a make life worthwhile - and the patient rarely refuses because of the small chance of dying on the operating table. Optimism is the natural state of being. In fact the natural state is an unrealistic and unwarranted optimism: a sane person doesn't really consider the real terrors and impermanence of life. Unfortunately this unwarranted optimism causes people to take real risks with their health, such as smoking, drinking, driving too fast and not eating proper food. I'd have gone for a better message than Roll the Dice. Do whatever your passion wants you to do. Do whatever it is you will gladly give all your energy to - and there's a good chance it will eventually pay off. It doesn't matter whether it is painting, poetry or breeding goldfish. Do it. Even if it doesn't pay off financially, at least you will have had a good time and an interesting life. Roll the Dice - Conceptual Photography by Abel Tonkens: http://www.designzzz.com/inspiring-conceptual-photography/ Roll the Dice by Oz - Heavy Metal Album: http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Oz/Roll_the_Dice/10654 if you're going to try, go all the way. otherwise, don't even start. if you're going to try, go all the way. this could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind. go all the way. it could mean not eating for 3 or 4 days. it could mean freezing on a park bench. it could mean jail, it could mean derision, mockery, isolation. isolation is the gift, all the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. and you'll do it despite rejection and the worst odds and it will be better than anything else you can imagine. if you're going to try, go all the way. there is no other feeling like that. you will be alone with the gods and the nights will flame with fire. do it, do it, do it. do it. all the way all the way. you will ride life straight to perfect laughter, it's the only good fight there is. |
| Category | Entertainment |
| Tags | Roll the Dice | Charles | Bukowski | poem | poetry |
