Episode 29 Leadosophy borrows some ideas and pithy quotes from Heraclitus, a pre-socratic Greek philosopher who lived over two millennia ago. Leadosophy uses an ebook titled, "Fragments: The Collected Wisdom of Heraclitus" which was translated by Brooks Haxton; with a foreword by James Hillman.
It's important to note that Heraclitus's only known work, "On Nature" never survived intact, so his translated words are second, third, and even fourth-hand accounts of his original written work.
Leadosophy is the fusion of leadership and philosophy, and Tim is a philosopher so he likes to randomly discuss philosophical works, and he may be guilty of forcefully pressing philosophy ideas into leadership ideas, which works sometimes, and other times it does not—square peg in a round hole analogy works here. But that's ok, any philosophy exposure is good exposure in the eyes of Leadosophy. We'll give Tim a pass every once in a while. #everyonelovesphilosophy
Here's the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's introduction of Heraclitus: "A Greek philosopher of Ephesus (near modern Kuşadası, Turkey) who was active around 500 BCE, Heraclitus propounded a distinctive theory which he expressed in oracular language. He is best known for his doctrines that things are constantly changing (universal flux), that opposites coincide (unity of opposites), and that fire is the basic material of the world. The exact interpretation of these doctrines is controversial, as is the inference often drawn from this theory that in the world as Heraclitus conceives it contradictory propositions must be true."
Reference
Heraclitus. Fragments (Penguin Classics). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heraclitus/
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