Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs gave a talk at TED. In it, he mentions two words that I’ve never heard before, but I do like.
anagnorisis – basically means “discovery”. Aristotle defined anagnorisis as “a change from ignorance to knowledge, producing love or hate between the persons destined by the poet for good or bad fortune”.
peripeteia – a drastic and unexpected change of fortune. Perepity is a different form of the same word.
Dirty Jobs is awesome, and Rowe is a big reason. He’s well-educated, and spends his time going out and doing really hard and nasty work.
Here’s the video of the TED talk.
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