Restructure / engender /reorient

[Christopher kim]

바꿔야 할 것
바꿔야 하지 않을 것
 
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reorient
 [riːɔ́ːriènt]
새방향으로 바꾸다
재교육하다
 
누구나 현재에 살고 있지만
그 (뚀는 그녀)의 옛날도 있고 미래 또한 존재한다.
그 세개의 시간을 잘 사는 것이 보람있는 삶이다.
물론 대개는 과거를 후회하고 현재 (너무 짧은)를 살다가
불확실한 미래에 기대를 하며 살고 있다.
 
성공적인 삶을 사는 사람은
과거를 거울 삼아 현재에 충실하고
희망찬 미래로 달리는 삶을 산다.
Do you try to REORIENT past mistakes,
live today by doing best and focus on the future?
당신은 과거의 잘못을 새방향으로 바꾸고
오늘은 최선을 다하면서 살고

미
래에 촛점을 두려고 노력하는지요?

 

이 문장을 이렇게 바꿔도 된다.
It's time to REORIENT past habits and develop healthier ones.
과거의 (잘못된) 습관 을 바꾸고
더 건강한 것들 (습관들)을 개발할 때다.
 
나는 oreint 라는 낱말을 보면
동양인 (東洋人)임을 자랑스러움을 재확인한다.
왜냐하면 orient 의 뿌리가 
"to arrange (something) so as to face east,
동쪽으로 향하기 위해 뭔가를 조정한다는 뜻이기 때문이다.
유럽에서 교회당을 지을 때 동쪽 (이스라엘의 Jerusalem)을
향해 짓도록 조정한다는 뜻에서 시작된 것이다.

Defining Memories
 

Radically Restructuring Our Understanding of Life
The overview effect.
Posted October 30, 2023
Reviewed by Jessica Schrader

KEY POINTS
Diet to reorient their thinking about food and health.
I need to reorient during this challenging time.
It's important to reorient during times of loss.
The pilot had to reorient beneath the thick fog.
It's crucial to reorient ahead of the project deadline.
Let's reorient past experiences to find new solutions.
It's time to reorient past mistakes and focus on the future.
I always try to reorient during periods of crisis.
I need to reorient between my work and personal life.
With the joining of a new pastor, the church’s beliefs and rule system underwent a reorientation.
When you get lost, you can reorient yourself with a compass.
The orchestra waited while the dancers reoriented themselves.
It's important to reorient past biases and embrace diversity.
 
It's time to reorient past habits and develop healthier ones.
When astronauts see the Earth from space, awe and wonder profoundly
reorient their beliefs about life.
 
Let's reorient without wasting any more time.
It's time to reorient our priorities
Let's pause and reorient during this busy period.
 
Was it time to REORIENT your views and apologize.
After the accident, it took him some time to reorient and regain his bearings."
The collapse of British power in the Pacific led Australia 
to REORIENT its foreign and military policy towards the United States.
reorient their beliefs about life.

Each of us can create an overview effect that elevates and broadens our perspective of the world around us.

Spend chunks of the day — even three-minute bursts— without your phone or device. To truly reorient the brain toward quiet and stillness, you need…quiet and stillness. I'm experimenting with iOS...

 
As the political center of the Roman Empire shifted east, Constantine also tried to reorient his new religion, Christianity, toward the east, holding the first church council in Nicaea in 325.
 

Perceiving the big picture is potentially life-changing for all of us.

Astronaut Edgar Mitchell described seeing the Earth from the moon as “an explosion of awareness” that engendered “an overwhelming sense of oneness and connectedness.” Alan Shepard, the first American in space and the oldest person to walk on the moon, said, “When I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the moon, I cried.”

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The verb reorient has orient as its base. Orient is from the Latin word orientem, which refers to the sun rising in the East. In fact the verb orient meant to face East, so reorient literally means to face East again. Today, reorient is to adjust to new circumstances or positions. The curriculum will reorient student learning goals, but it also means you have to learn the new, new, new math.
reorient (v.)
also re-orient, 1897, transitive, "give a new direction to;" 1937, intransitive, "adjust (to), come to terms with, adopt a new direction;" from re- "back, again" + orient (v.) or perhaps a back-formation from reorientation. Related: Reoriented; reorienting. Alternative reorientate is recorded from 1913. Tennyson uses reorient as an adjective, "arising again or anew."
also from 1897
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orient (v.)
by 1741, "to arrange (something) so as to face east," from French s'orienter "to take one's bearings," literally "to face the east" (also the source of German orientierung), from Old French orient "east," from Latin orientum (see orient (n.)). Extended meaning "place or arrange in any definite position with reference to the points of the compass" is by 1842; the figurative sense, with reference to new situations or ideas, is by 1850. Related: Oriented; orienting.
re- 
word-forming element meaning "back, back from, back to the original place;" also "again, anew, once more," also conveying the notion of "undoing" or "backward," etc. (see sense evolution below), c. 1200, from Old French re- and directly from Latin re- an inseparable prefix meaning "again; back; anew, against."
Watkins (2000) describes this as a "Latin combining form conceivably from Indo-European *wret-, metathetical variant of *wert- "to turn." De Vaan says the "only acceptable etymology" for it is a 2004 explanation which reconstructs a root in PIE *ure "back."
In earliest Latin the prefix became red- before vowels and h-, a form preserved in redact, redeem, redolent, redundant, redintegrate, and, in disguise, render (v.). In some English words from French and Italian re- appears as ra- and the  following consonant is often doubled (see rally (v.1)).
The many meanings in the notion of "back" give re- its broad sense-range: "a turning back; opposition; restoration to a former state; "transition to an opposite state." From the extended senses in "again," re- becomes "repetition of an action," and in this sense it is extremely common as a formative element in English, applicable to any verb. OED writes that it is "impossible to attempt a complete record of all the forms resulting from its use," and adds that "The number of these is practically infinite ...."   
Often merely intensive, and in many of the older borrowings from French and Latin the precise sense of re- is forgotten, lost in secondary senses, or weakened beyond recognition, so that it has no apparent semantic content (receive, recommend, recover, reduce, recreate, refer, religion, remain, request, require). There seem to have been more such words in Middle English than after, e.g. recomfort (v.) "to comfort, console; encourage;" recourse (n.) "a process, way, course." Recover in Middle English also could mean "obtain, win" (happiness, a kingdom, etc.) with no notion of getting something back, also "gain the upper hand, overcome; arrive at;" also consider the legal sense of recovery as "obtain (property) by judgment or legal proceedings." 
And, due to sound changes and accent shifts, re- sometimes entirely loses its identity as a prefix (rebel, relic, remnant, restive, rest (n.2) "remainder," rally (v.1) "bring together"). In a few words it is reduced to r-, as in ransom (a doublet of redemption), rampart, etc.
It was used from Middle English in forming words from Germanic as well as Latin elements (rebuild, refill, reset, rewrite), and was used so even in Old French (regret, regard, reward, etc.).

Prefixed to a word beginning with e, re- is separated by a hyphen, as re-establish, re-estate, re-edify, etc. ; or else the second e has a dieresis over it: as, reëstablish, reëmbark, etc. The hyphen is also sometimes used to bring out emphatically the sense of repetition or iteration : as, sung and re-sung. The dieresis is not used over other vowels than e when re is prefixed : thus, reinforce, reunite, reabolish. [Century Dictionary, 1895]

reorientation (n.)
also re-orientation, "action or process of reorienting, a fresh orientation," 1893, from re- "again, anew" + orientation.

No amount of training prepares astronauts for the awe and wonder of witnessing the Earth from space. These astronauts see the sublime beauty and striking fragility of Earth—a luminous blue sphere hanging in the darkness of space, protected by a paper-thin membrane of atmosphere.

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They see the continents as land masses unmarked by national boundaries. Sunset sweeps across the Earth and whole cities suddenly switch on lights. Thunderstorms churn and swirl, as if initiating their own movements. Everything everywhere contributes to beautiful, diverse earthly life.

Mitchell summarized four effects of this experience: “An instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it.”

Seeing the Earth from space engenders the most extreme example of the overview effect—an elevated perspective that radically alters fundamental beliefs and creates an extended epiphany, redefining new and sustaining purpose. Central to the overview effect is self-transcendence—a connection of one’s self with other people and with the natural world.

Experiencing Our Own Overview Effects
Astronauts experience this when they see the Earth from space, but how can the rest of us strive for such a concept-changing, life-altering perspective? We can’t fly to the moon or take a walk out from a space station, but there are earthly activities that can widen and heighten our view and give new insight into our own existence and life in general. Here are some of these perspective-changing activities.

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