Tag: Self-Restraint

• September 14, 2011

  On the Ulysses effect: Insight, foresight, and ingenuity

  The Story Aware that, when the time comes, he will be unable to resist the siren’s beautiful song yet cognizant of the fact that the siren is really a death trap, Ulysses advises his men to secure him firmly to the ship’s mast. That way, he can listen to the song without being lured to…