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Mark David Gerson
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The Way of the Imperfect Fool
Self-Help
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Step #2: Fire Up Your Intuition!
If The Way of the Imperfect Fool is about anything, it's about intuition – listening for it, trusting it and following it...even when it makes no conventional sense. It's that innate faith in his intuition that not only guides the tarot Fool whose archetype lies at the foundation of this book but also guided me in its creation: When I started out, I had nothing but a title, a sense of my own perfectionist tendencies and a certainty that those same tendencies had often gotten in the way of my success. From that starting point, I turned the project over to my inner Fool and let my intuition do the rest! (If the Getty curators had done something similar, perhaps they wouldn't have dropped a reported $12 million on what is widely believed to be a fake!)
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The Way of the Imperfect Fool
When back in the mid-1980s, LA’s Getty Museum paid a Basel art dealer what is rumored to have been as much as $12 million for a priceless Greek statue known as a kouros, it didn’t do so without first spending fourteen months subjecting the statue’s provenance documents to close scrutiny and the statue itself to a battery of scientific tests.
However, historians who viewed the sculpture once it was in the Getty’s hands were convinced that it was a fake. As Malcolm Gladwell recounts in his book Blink, one insisted that it just “didn’t look right,” while another had an “instinctive sense” that something about it was off.
By the early 1990s, those intuitive feelings had been proved to be accurate. Not only was the kouros’s documentation discovered to have been forged, it was learned that the layer of calcite around the statue could have formed in just a few years, not over many centuries as had originally been assumed.
The kouros is still at the Getty — in storage and viewable only by private appointment.
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