Quality - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

[AdamSandman]

Phaedrus and his knife. With that kind of analytical mind you could dissect any word in the English vocabulary and harp on it's relation to other words. I think he recieved an answer and then decided that it was too simple.

[JayGatsbyOdysseus]

I am not very smart, but I did manage to finish college, a BA degree. If you don't have at least a bachelors, you can't understand Zen and the Art of Motocycle Maintenance. There are so many references to the basic four year liberal arts degree material. I worked in quality for 21 years at Chrysler. I was always pushing Metaphysics of Quality ideas onto the production people. read somewhere that there is a university over in England that has a PhD program in MOQ. There is one graduate.

[wintersnot]

Read it 30+ years ago. It was a tough read then.

Just finished the 19th chapter now.

Somehow I'm reminded of a dinner at an old girlfriend's house years ago, when her mother turned to her and said, (referring to me) " il mange avec fury". Suffice to say, Robert, too, seemed hungry for, something.

I prefer the story-lines. The rest is self-indulgence. imo.

I also get the impression that he needed to prove something to someone,

daddyo.

peace

[toadcrab]

Im a loving man, But i loooooooove this music! Who made this music?

[jappud]

I'd be more than happy to be proven wrong, but I never found the argument made in the book about quality to be of much substance. Does Quality exist? I think it only exists when applied to a given context. It is an attribute we see in something that says, "this is a good example of x". For example, if examining a metal, quality might be the purity. But when this same metal is to be used to build a motorcycle, then the quality is contingent on its utility. To say quality exists means nothing.

[jeffbriggs1987]

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[grubeci]

All I rememeber is the title..and maybe that is enough..I think I'm going to write non-books with good titles.

[vk08]

It starts like a nice story but then delves deeply into certain concepts that most people simply wont care abt. But some parts were really enlightening.

[critchley3819]

@vk08 Im 60 and have just finished reading this book for the sixed and last time,he mentions ego and I think this whole book is more about ego than quality,this book was written by a person so full of himself that it sent him crazy. a book that set out to baffle the reader with bullshit but this time it did not work, Its not anything special at all just a ratteling of words.

[mnair77]

Please remove the apostrophe from "It's question" near the beginning. I liked your video, beautiful pictures.

[gyoza007]

I think, it's one of those books lots of poeple have read, but very few could honestly say they understood. I can see why so many publishers passed on it. It's a tough read. I really wanted to like it, but found the multipul narratives and tangential stuff confusing. Maybe, I'll try again one day...

[TheMotherEagle]

@gyoza007 I am listening to the audiobook as I walk my 10 miles back and to the gym each day and while I am only half way through it I think I understand it so far. I tried to read the book but as usual things get in the way but on your travels in the car to work its a great way to use that time in a meaningful way.

[thanksforyouruploads]

@gyoza007 agreed.

the author should have strived to write more simply and could have gotten alot of help if he was hardworking enough to do more re-writes...

but he was trapped in a maze of himself which ultimately drove him nutty...

like all things, be moderate.

[critchley3819]

@gyoza007 No it wont work,I read this book four times over thirty years, it is the story about a mans ego, who has set out to proove that words are stronger than emotion, I now don't like this book, things just happen that way.

[Jakomancer]

trololo?

[flexibartrampolin]

This is the best of the videos on this subject. it is perfect. Are you a pro?

[LIGHTRONIX]

what does the color blue look like?

[danskTRIGGER]

great job! Keep cool! Stay tuned! :o)

[rishnack]

i dont care.....oh wait maybe i do?

[IceBarrier]

Ask Phaedrus, he knows ;-)

[pancakepuddle]

@IceBarrier

If only Phaedrus were able to answer...

[justdoodleit]

I think 'quality' is nothing but the degree of awareness of consciousness!

[critchley3819]

No quality is very simple you only can see our touch it. but when you do it makes you feel good

[mathnawi21]

is reality on what you can measure? I'm not sure he says that. Can you measure love? Is love real?

Nice video though!

[BraedenX]

Nice vid :D - But I dunno... it lacks most of the reasoning for pirsig's idea of 'quality'. It's like "gimme a main idea of the book's main theme in n sentences".

I'd have liked it much more if you could give a bit more wide picture of it.

It wasn't bad, but you could have said at least how this whole thing works. Anyway, nice vid and let's see you explain a bit more this whole quality concept. :D