Nose aligned to work

Look at your nose

Mnemonic devices ("recall-helpers") are used to ease both learning and recall. (WP, "Mnemonics")

A nose may be used as a mnemonic device to carry with you "always": Look at it with one eye open, and you may see a blurred profile. Divide the profile mentally into four main spans. They are called F, O, I, and R here. Each span may be divided into lays, into lesser stretches:

F starts with 1 within your nostril and ends with 5 in the open, right under your nose.

O starts with 6 (at the nose-tip) and ends with 10 further up along the nose-ridge.

I starts with 11 and ends with 15.

R begins with 16 and ends with 20.

That is the whole ascent route in short. Meat on the bones:

F. The F part (steps 1-5) is filled with family learning, assimilating things, and being instructed. More details: [More]

O. The O part of living reaches the middle of the nose ridge (Koan-like assessment). To attain to the O section is to gain some Tao (way, means, handling routines that pay off). It involves accomplishing deals, dealings, handling things by routines (ways, modes, accomplishments) or rather on-going drill. and one goal in this is to keep calm. The O part deals with labour and appropriate ways at times. After you have arrived at some Tao or large enough Tao outlets, you can try to be culinary and artistic without offending the boss.

I. About the middle of the nose ridge is where the next main stretch sets in - the I part of the ascent route. The nose ridge in this profile picture corresponds with the Tao line between outer (yin) and inner (yang). This span (11-15) suits management and organisers. Also, many bosses get bitter for lack of understanding how things work.

R. The R part starts about where you knit the eyebrows. Self-helpers may do without descriptions from it, but who knows.

The fairy tale route to success slopes as your natural nose - in step with the structuralism of Algirdas Greimas (1983).

Figurative expressions need to be deciphered to be put to good use. If so, maybe this applies: "There's nothing as useful as a good theory," said Kurt Levin. (in Greenberg et al. 2015, 11). Adding to it: "The nose is close."

The span F-O simplified

1. Cogency: Beads 1, 2: Of cogency mainly. Basic insider rooting and some basic premises for further work, and a family to grow up in is fit. To get repeatedly very well instructed is fit.

2. Stringency: Beads 3, 4: Of stringency. Finding one's grounding assets and going on to make life even better by sifting and straining some of them. It implies personal hammering-out of items and features and tools, being well versed, having some shelter, hopefully.

3. Application: Beads 5-10: Of apt application with tact. Applying foregoing assets with topmost care. Having to do with probably suitable measures of dealings and work. Outfit that suits you. Seem frivolous enough to get a hearty welcome. Giving no offence most often, according to some round scheme of living.

4. Various: Beads 11-16 (ca), of managing, relating and/or administering something, relates to pieces of some canon typically.

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Elegant poetry

The poet describes what is possible as though it were both likely and necessary. (Aristotle).

Salient poetry may enrich your mind, and elegant poetry heightens the mind. Poetry is an ancient mode of expression. Part of its effect stems from your conjuring up pictures or images from within through it.

Poetry has a very long history, and stems from prehistoric times. Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, for example, are poems. In his Poetics, Aristotle compares poetry to history, and states that poetry is more philosophic than history and thus of greater intrinsic worth.

The efforts of ancient thinkers to determine what is poetry and what makes good poetry differ from bad, resulted in "poetics", that is, the study of poetry aesthetics.

There are many views on poetry. It signifies, at bottom, expressed feelings and ideas that are given prominence by the use of distinctive style and rhythm. Poetry may evoke meanings too.

Specific poetic forms have been developed by many cultures. Many modern poets avoid using recognisable structures or forms and write in free verse. But poetry differs from prose, and so does free verse too.

The methods for creating poetic rhythm vary across languages and between poetic traditions. As for rhymes, languages vary in how easy it is to find rhyming words or parts of words.

As it is, today's poetry reflects freedom in several ways. One is forgoing rhyme or set rhythm. Another is adapting forms, styles and techniques from a variety of cultures and languages. Alongside with it is a marked revival of older forms and structures.

(A source: WP, "Poetry")

Poetry conquers or hovers by its reliance upon the line as a formal unit, by its heightened vocabulary, and fairy often by freedom of syntax. It can encompass many a mode: narrative, concise and pithy (aphoristic) dramatic with a satiric flair or not, very descriptive, tersely didactic, offhand erotic, and suggestive and personal. There are many others:

"Lines can separate, compare or contrast thoughts expressed in different units, or can highlight a change in tone." (WP, "Poetry")

Neat and handy people sift what looks interesting or significant so as to make meaning out of more as they go on.

Culinary and skilled use of language allows for poetry too. Poetry has many strings to its bow.

Of Tao poems

Tick tack tao essay-tables enable gist-poems that may amount to entertain too.

Tick tack tao essays are for "anyone" interested.

A tick tack tao essay is a more or less terse serialisation scenario. It suggests you may build on top of former accomplishments, one step (lay) at a time in the main - perhaps.

Tick Tack Tao can be applied to poets

The tick tack tao scheme allows for putting output of poets and others to good use as well. The same goes for key biography or life data. See how it is done: [Link]

There is a good reason for learning from the works and lives of others - We may benefit and think better to cope -, unless others help us. Schooling is for that, ideally, if you can stand it.

A simple and cogent, generalised and matrix-based design allows for sound, cognitive schemata to be built.

Tick tack tao scenarios help us to arrive at fresh metaphors quite often.

Good

There is a good reason to find out just what could be meant when we say this and that is okay, or good to look at. These things matter to clarify a long way, minding that some modern values are on the glide, and many values are up to very relative, but not all of them.

Something or someone can be be looked on as "good" if decency or dignity and seemliness are is the first place, allowing fair play and/or humour instead of combats and wars.

Kusa poems - how they are assembled

Here is how to form teaching poetry by help of the tick tack tao scheme. Sort your own points or choose some tick tack tao essay on the site. Then select a line or two from the beads ("stations", lays) in this order: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 (etc).

Making poetry in such a way is easy. Details and examples: [Kusa poetry]

See if you are not disappointed: Try it. You may brush up the lines you get to form a cogent whole also. The quality of the poem may be another matter. It depends on your skill in putting parts together. Maybe you find it fit to fuse a few points from the same "bead". If so, you are quite free. Have some fun -

Launced Example

The tick tack Tao table-essay serves to form teaching poems too, as far as we like. From the essay on a previous page we get, for example:

Manifesting Unaided

Unaided is seldom welcome and consolidated,

Up to snuff,

Handy and things.

Yet, manifesting oneself neatly is a main side to living,

Manifesting oneself well

Along broad lines too.

You may add rhymes and metres as you like, yet in free verse it is not asked for or needed (WP, "Blank verse;" "Free verse").

Some Quotes

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true. - Sophia Loren

Philosophers . . . invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines. - Bertrand Russell

Our vision of what's important is exactly the same today, bringing together the best systems and the best software to empower people with rich information solutions. - Bill Gates

Beware of a system where misses are penalised.

No matter how fast your system runs, you may eventually come to think of it as slow.

Any system that depends on reliability is unreliable.

A system is a network of interdependent components that work together to try to accomplish the aim of the system. A system must have an aim. Without the aim, there is no system. - W. Edwards Deming

Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools. - Gene Brown

Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes? - Joseph Campbell