The elves lead them to the right path and across a very narrow bridge which they have to take their horses over. The elves tease them some more. Eventually they find Elrond's house and spend at least 2 weeks there. It was a very pleasant stay but they didn't have much else to say about it.

We learn that Elrond's father existed before written history.

They make their way into the village. We learn that one of them wins an archery contest every year by focusing on a flame and the void. He tried to do that again but his mind was still worried about the dark figure.

We learn of Rand's love interest named Egwene. Eventually they start talking to some people and sharing news of the winter storms as they make their way into the village.

We learn the story of a man who used to chew his fingernails until one day he decided to get a manicure. The nail tech told his he had very nice fingernails and from that day on he decided not to chew them anymore because he started identifying with being someone who has nice nails. He started taking pride in this. Pride leads to behavioral changes because its a form of identity.

From my own experience I can see dangers with this because when identity is threatened that's when we become stressed and start to suffer. So, one has to be very careful how much one identifies with something.

The author continues to make the claim that identity is the real reason behind motivating habits. I think to the times when I'm most motivated to do things like charity and I don't believe its because of an identity belief. For me, its the view that doing such an action will lead to some result and that the driving force behind such action is real.

At this point in the book I'm more inclined to say that having the correct view is more important than having the right identity. Yes, identity is part of one's views but there's more to it. The view of how reality actually works is critical in shaping behavior.

Variables and functions have different name spaces. When we call a variable by itself Emacs is doing (symbol-value 'varname) in the background.

If you call the name of a variable by itself inside parens then Emacs will think you are trying to call a function and you will get an error.

(varname) will return an error if there is no function called varname.

Emacs is written and extended in Elisp so learning this language allows you to fully customize, modify, and extend the editor.

Interactive functions are called commands.