Talk:Crafting Your Life Program

Reinhold Messner

(Perhaps to be incorporated later.)

I must have heard Reinhold Messner, perhaps at Markus Lanz, state something to the effect that he is mountain climbing since it is most meaningful (something like sinnvollste) while at the same time most useless (something like nutzloseste) (the German spellings may need checking).

One can find Messner talk like this: "It’s the conquering of the useless." Similar language is used in an Independent article.

I find this idea interesting, though from a logical point of view, I have some doubts about it. He also must have said something to the effect that he goes to places where he can die not to die. He uses the words Grenzgang and Grenzgänger.

A question for generative AI: What does Messner say about the most useless while most meaningful?

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--Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 11:38, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

Whence the concept of life program

I wondered where I got this concept of life program from, including the name for the concept.

One candidate is Eric Berne, who speaks of life plan, also known as script. And as a computer programmer, I easily interpret script as a certain kind of program (as in Unix shell script), although that is not necessarily what Berne had in mind. I seem to recall Berne speaks of parental programming.

Moreover, I seem to recall the phrase životní program (life programs) being used in a Czechoslovak film whose screenwriter could have been Zdeněk Svěrák. I seem to recall that the film makes fun of someone who lives their life in a very planned way, someone working as a computer programmer. I would need to check.

One could make a Google search for Czech životní program and figure out the life of this phrase. It could be used quite differently from English life program; perhaps it does correspond to life plan.

--Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 12:05, 22 November 2024 (UTC)