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10/1/2019

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I am happy to adopt Jordan Peterson's Rule One Stand Up Straight With Your Shoulders Back (See yesterday's post)

I do indeed feel stronger and happier when I do (I pretend I am the lovely Darcey Bussell), and also find people respond more positively towards me when I do. More serotonin apparently! And a great deal to do with hierarchies in all species including humans, status and society, territory, conflict and dominance and the brutal principle of unequal distribution...there is a lot in Chapter One.

(Rule Two is Treat Yourself Like Someone You Are Responsible For Helping - will read this chapter in February.)

I heard Scottish Opera emerging artists in a concert at the Unversity of Glasgow today - wonderful, and I also loved the transformation of what I usually find to be a gloomy part of the building...
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Julia
10/1/2019 03:25:03 pm

I’ve seen a few of his interviews and he is indeed fascinating! And challenging! Especially in our very PC times....i grew up in alberta, canada, a few years before he did. I recognize his “alberta-isms” in his speech, but also his stance of many topics...:-)

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Freda
11/1/2019 01:38:06 pm

'Anyways' is the one I notice!

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Julia
12/1/2019 04:52:55 pm

That’s the one..:-)

Viv link
11/1/2019 01:57:07 am

I checked through your link - ended up on You tube and watched the whole talk about his book of rules. Of course I should have been doing a million and one other things but he is fascinating. Rule 2 is good.
A little light in dark places is all one needs - the bible is completely right in this respect.

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Freda
11/1/2019 01:39:23 pm

Glad you found it interesting Viv and of course the million and one other things will still be there later!

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Linda
11/1/2019 05:03:11 am

I went to an old-fashioned girls' grammar school where we were not allowed to slouch, and I also tend to sit very straight at the dinner table - my grandmother was born towards the end of the C19, so a Victorian, and she had attend this same school as a girl. I lived with my gran during my formative years - probably explains a lot!
I like the sound of Rule 2. We are all so self-critical, aren't we?

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Freda
11/1/2019 01:41:14 pm

My Gran influenced my sisters and I too - especially on table manners! I am looking forward to reading about Rule 2..

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Julia
11/1/2019 06:52:14 am

On re-reading this post, freda..it struck me how uplifting the pillars in this photo are!..and they too are standing up straight...we need pillars of strength in our lives and we need to be pillars of strength for our loved ones at times too.

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Freda
11/1/2019 01:42:26 pm

It must have taken an age to do! I really liked it, and your metaphors..

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cath
11/1/2019 07:10:56 am

To to have the posture of Darcey Bussell (lovely indeed as I saw when I googled her), Margot Fonteyn, Alexandra Radius or Igone de Jongh (all ballerina's) would be marvellous. I should have started training a bit earlier in life though. Did you want to be a ballerina? I wanted to be like Audrey Hepburn, a kind of ballerina too. I am going to pretend again I am her.

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Freda
11/1/2019 01:45:08 pm

Darcey Bussell made a lovely programme about Audrey Hepburn - two beautiful women I admire! Was a fairy in a tutu in a Sunday School operatta once - loved the costume. :-)

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Susan (Dorset)
11/1/2019 10:50:56 pm

I saw Darcy Bussell, on a few occasions, from the £3.50 standing 'seats' in 'The Gods' at Covent Garden, when I was a student in London, and she was dancing her first short solo roles.
Also, Nureyev, Natalia Makarova, and Mikhail Baryshnikov!

Susan (Dorset)
11/1/2019 10:55:06 pm

Ooo, and Alessandra Ferri, who would be my chosen role model for elegance and poise.

Freda
12/1/2019 04:19:37 pm

Wonderful to see all of these live - the real thing. There is nothing like it.

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