Feeling yourself observed, concentrating on your headache, using your head as a weapon with which to butt someone, transforms it into a thing or a tool separate from you, the agent and observer.
The modern-day philosopher and writer Nassim Nicholas Taleb defines a Stoic as someone who, "transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation and desire into undertaking".
It felt as if someone had transformed the state of Rhode Island into a giant casino: no windows for as far as the eye could see, just vendor upon vendor - sometimes 3 or 4 sharing a booth - all of whom had paid tidy sums for the opportunity to tout their new products and hopefully impress Whole Foods, Costco, Walmart and other distributors.
I say this as someone who has been transformed by a teacher and who as a teacher (I hope) has transformed others.
The Zhuangzi and other texts refer to the figure of the spirit person or shen ren 神人 as someone who has effectively transformed the physical body and the qi that constitutes it.
I remember feeling infuriated that someone had transformed my precombat staging ground into a playground.
Instead it consists entirely of behavior observed from a privileged position, as was "The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick". We see Jonathan not as he is transformed into someone other, but as he strips down to his essential being.
"As someone who emerged from slavery to transform that slave society into the first independent black nation in the Western Hemisphere," Bell said, "Toussaint is probably the greatest African-American hero of all time.
Oh, shit, weird: someone must've taken a photo of her as she transformed?
Nor are there many articles these days about how a college education has transformed someone's life as it does for many of our students.
Once play began, however, Hossler transformed into someone with as much calm and confidence as someone who has played on the Tour for years.
