Bet on The Self-Improving Bet on the self-improving But only on the TRULY self-improving In general people don’t change. Therefore you want people already FITTING, already SUITABLE, already PERFECT. Yes you can teach them a thing or two — but you can’t expect them to change. Therefore you want them already changed, already …
Category: Philosophy
We Underestimate Learning Ability, Overestimate Changing Capacity
We underestimate the extent to which we can learn. But we also overestimate the degree to which others can change. Intelligence makes you think faster, comprehend faster, learn faster. But if knowledge is fixed — then it makes no difference how fast you have learned it. Once you learned it — it’s learned. You …
Creativity -> Business -> Art -> Consciousness
1. CREATIVITY is human prerogative 2. CREATIVITY is first practical — then transcendental 3. The practical value of creativity is solving practical problems. It’s as good as well it solves problems, as good as hard problems it solves 4. The transcendental value of creativity is how effectively it elevates consciousness, and how high 1. …
Will To Change = Know The Price
One’s willingness to change is measured in how much one is willing to PAY, to GIVE (to make that change). The idea of “no excuses”, or conversely of “Excuses” — are both meaningless. They say absolutely nothing about how much you’re willing to pay “No excuses” is an outright lie. Are you willing to …
BOTH Optimistic And Pessimistic
I spoke against optimism in place of realism. I spoke against scepticism in place of possibility, which is just pessimism and defeatism. I spoke for philosophically fundamentally positive attitude to existence I also spoke for seeing more “negative” as your perception improves I want to once again stress it, if it’s not yet clear: …
Explaining vs Knowing
There’s explicit knowledge and implicit knowledge Explicit knowledge is knowledge which can be readily passed, written down, coded, recorder, verbalised, conveyed… Implicit knowledge is knowledge which is difficult to convey, difficult to teach, and often difficult even to be aware of (e.g. try writing instructions on how to WALK properly, as a human being, or …
FUN, CREATIVITY and JOY are HOW YOU DO EVERYTHING
You don’t do art to be creative You don’t dance to have fun You don’t joke to laugh You don’t seek thrills to get excited You don’t indulge to experience pleasure You don’t do things to be happy You don’t seek love You are creative therefore do things creatively (including art) You have fun …
Be More Imitative AND More Original
You should be more imitative AND more original How’s that possible? Isn’t it mutually exclusive? It’s possible if you’re poor at imitating It’s possible if you’re poor at being original It’s exactly what happens: You call it originality — but you’re just poor at imitating Or you call it imitating and “doing what …
MISCOMMUNICATION IS CHEATING
Humans have many explicit AND IMPLICIT ways in which they communicate Likewise humans have different kinds of relationships (with closer relationships typically necessitating superior communication) The absolute fundamentals of communication are deeply wired: -you convey your feelings with your bearing -and others can feel how you feel -and human can always SENSE their place …
Noble Escapes Are Still Escapes
Consider what it truly means to “use something as an escape” To use something for a specific purpose is to NOT use it for a different purpose, E.g. you could use an axe to chop down a tree and build yourself a wooden house — or you could use an axe to chop someone’s fucking …