I’ve lost many things over the years. Many things I miss. And many of them I didn’t really have to lose. It’s those that hurt the most: things that are lost because of something I did or didn’t do. A result of my own choices.

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On the 15th of December, Nelson Mandela was buried, an event that was apparently commemorated all over the world. Here in Tromsø, hundreds of people walked across the iconic Tromsø bridge with torches in hand (though, unfortunately, the strong winds tended to extinguish them), and then gathered in the city center, where there were a few speeches, some talking with some South African youth going to university here, and a concert. Walking across the bridge was supposed to be an appropriate way to honor a bridge-builder such as Mandela.

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I’ve decided to explain what makes people who “are extremely intelligent and don’t like it” interesting to me.

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I just found out about the word “autotelic”. When applied to a person, it describes someone that doesn’t need or care about external motivation, such as money, power, or fame. Almost everything he/she does is motivated entirely from within by himself/herself, by a love for what he/she is doing. Because this inner motivation is usually fueled by the experience of “flow”, such people are generally also quite creative in their fields, and often stand out.

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A quote commonly attributed to Albert Einstein: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” (Probably not entirely accurate, but it doesn’t make much difference.)

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