It’s a cycle: -delusion, ignorance, denial -acceptance, pessimism, desperation -growth, enlightenment Examples? –Dunning-Kruger effect –Gartner’s hype cycle –Four stages of competence -and most people you know Let’s explain the cycle: DELUSION, IGNORANCE, DENIAL -Anything you’re not knowledgeable about, don’t have significant experience at — you’re basically ignorant about -Since you’re ignorant — …
Category: Lifestyle
Ability to Listen vs Ability to Understand
There’s ability to listen and there’s ability to understand. Ability to listen is how well you listen. Ability to understand is how much you understand. Most people have MEDIOCRE ability to listen. “OK” is good. “GREAT” ability to listen is someone who wants to hear you EVEN if he doesn’t understand. “GREAT” ability …
About Travelling
The value of travelling is not travelling. The value of travelling is THE NEW. The value of THE NEW is that the new is the promise of growth, evolution. You can’t have growth without changing, without developing into something different, something new indeed. On a deeper level — the value of the NEW is …
Failure Is Real, Success Is Real
Let’s define success as: *tangibly doing a little better at something specific*, let’s define failure as: *failing to do better whatsoever at something specific*, Success is not merely “doing better”. Anything can be defined as better or worse. You have to be specific. This is the trap of the “conventionally successful”. They think they …
Time Mastery
Time mastery is mastering the use of time. Mastering the use of time means getting the most out of the time that you are given. Getting the most out of time you are given requires two conditions: -Understanding the VALUE of time -Ability to manage the time-resource The value of time is equal …
You’re Forgetting Too Much
I do believe that FORGETFULNESS is the obvious natural ABSORBING BARRIER It’s just that for absolute majority of people the primary hindrances, even before memory, is simply: -not doing enough (doing in general, and doing new things, iterating) -blindness: some inborn (biases), most learned (einstellung effect, ego, sunk cost, it’s a looooong fucking list) But …
Asceticism Doesn’t Get To The Cause
There’s the problem of DESIRE — which is a problem of a false god, of delusion There’s the problem of OVERINDULGENCE — which is a problem of being distracted, ineffective — and all that in vain — as the pleasure is empty. By CEASING DESIRE-pursuits and PLEASURE-PURSUITS and becoming an ASCETIC — you do …
A Professional Solves Problems Calmly and Quietly and Efficiently
There’s the problem and there’s the solution The problem is a tension which necessitates a release. The problem entails solution. Direct or indirect. Sometimes you eradicate the problem and sometimes you accept it. But a certain attitude must be arrived at Problem evokes motivation which results in pursuit of the solution. This motivation can come …
Social Expansion
Men want to obtain value and preserve value. Same is true in the social context: When interacting with the world — you want to OBTAIN VALUE and PRESERVE VALUE. How do we go about it? By some time in our lives we develop some default STRATEGY: —one which usually errs on the side of …
Decisiveness and Judiciousness
-There are decisions to be made -There are informations -Then there’s the process -And finally your computing resources: brainpower and time You can rarely make a perfect decision. And when you can — usually you do it instantly (because you already have the problem solved) You can rarely make a perfect decision — but …