half-baked idea: building moral muscle

Part of my new plan for sidenote is to post more often, and that's going to result in me writing whatever bs is on my mind. Hopefully it's more good than bad, but either way I'll keep posting. 

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It's Tuesday, day 2 of being back at school. Fortunately, I'm studying from home and Starbucks instead, so it still kind of feels like vacation. 

Looking over the surface anatomy of the gut, my head was definitely spinning in all the new vocab. I wonder if it would be easier to learn if I had abs. Damn Netter.. now I'm definitely self-conscious about the cookies I ate yesterday. Just did ten push ups. Also, I would have posted a real picture of my abs but this blog is rated PG.

sidenote - on the topic of anatomy, I had a half-baked about building moral muscle. I'm not sure who came up with the idea of moral muscle, but it sounds like moral muscle = intangibles.  sidenote within a sidenote - I have this philosophy that intangibles represents everything that actually matters about humans, but it also represents everything that's difficult to quantify. So instead, we judge people by silly measures like MCAT scores, salary, lbs bench pressed, etc. One my life missions is to figure out how to understand intangibles better. Anyways, back to my idea: is it possible to build intangibles in the same way you'd build regular muscle? 

ie - if I wanted better abs I would do two hundred sit-ups everyday for a year.  ergo - if we take use humility as an example - I'd force myself to do something I'm obviously bad at everyday, and the process of making mistakes and seeing my limitations would eventually make me more humble..? Kind of a fake-it-till-you-make-it strategy.

What we need is an app that could keep track of every time you do something humble, like a workout log.  We'd also need certified trainers that would tell us how to become humble, as well as workout buddies to keep us accountable.  I really like the parallel of athletics to life. I feel like this is going somewhere but I'm out of ideas.

See you on the other side,

from ken

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