You want to do more — then learn more, know more
You want to live more — then learn more, know more (stories)
You want to do more — then learn more, know more: RELATE your ACTIONS to the body of knowledge
You want to live more — then learn more, know more (stories): RELATE your LIFE EXPERIENCE to the stories of others
Empty knowledge, knowledge greed — it not only not helpful, but inimical
Stories you can’t relate to are not only not helpful, but inimical
Empty knowledge, knowledge greed — it not only not helpful, but inimical
Knowledge you can’t use is obviously useless
And it’s not even free. There’s an opportunity cost. The cost of learning useless knowledge is not having learned useful knowledge.
It’s not even free… and then there’s a tax! The tax of ARROGANCE.
You greedily putting knowledge into your skull is you believing that you actually have a clue
Except you don’t
You’re as ignorant as any ignorant
Anyone is ignorant but the REAL WORLD DOERS
You were better off not having that “knowledge”. Because then at least you knew you were a fool — who must learn something useful
Now you think you’re a learned man, you think you have a clue — and there’s no hope for you
Stories you can’t relate to are not only not helpful, but inimical
If your existence is poor in experiences, poor in lessons and challenges, poor in excitement and joy, poor in victories and failures — then you can’t relate to those fascinating stories you consume, can you?
You relate — but in a wrong way
You relate your biases.
You use the content of those stories to confirm your own biases
To confirm your delusions, to confirm your misgivings, to confirm your scepticism, to justify your failures and incompetence and lethargy
We all do, actually
But the one whose LIVING, whose pushing his life to the limit, whose always doing something new, whose always asking WHAT MORE THERE IS — his experience of those stories is going to be a different one altogether
He will FUEL his inspiration. He will become only more hopeful. He will be only more eager. He will pick up more ideas, more solutions. He will have even MORE LOVE for life, for humanity, for existence.
You have to LIVE yourself first. You have to DO things first.
If you do do more — then obviously you should learn more.
Of course if you do more — you find more problems to solve — therefore need more solutions.
(Solutions which don’t solve your problems are a problem. A waste of space. A distraction.)
But solutions to actual problems are the SINGLE BEST THING, obviously. Once you have a problem — it’s solution you need. Once you solved your problem — you find more problems, more challenges. And then more solutions again. That’s life, simple.
And INDEED, as you LIVE MORE — you examine the tapestry of life in greater and greater detail, with greater subtlety and refinement.
And you want to relate those wonderful discoveries with those of others.
This is human condition
This is human connection
This is culture
This is being human
This is belonging to a community
This is belonging to humanity
This is belonging in the world
So go ahead and read books. Fiction and non-fiction
Go ahead and learn new skills.
Go ahead and watch TV
Go ahead and watch YOUTUBE
Go listen to an interview with someone
Go watch a science programme
Do all of the above
But first LIVE MORE AND DO MORE,
MUCH MUCH MORE
Because it’s YOU LIVING LIFE, and YOU DOING THINGS — which is THE point
If you distract from that point — it will be to your detriment
But if you can elaborate on that point — then please do
See what others do and how they do it — and DO MORE, and DO BETTER
See how others live — and LIVE more ALIVE
Finally, a practical tip or two:
“Live more and do more than you watch and learn” — how much more?
MUCH MORE
You really shouldn’t have a clue about the recent movies, recent TV shows,
…watch just a few within a lifetime, literally.
You really shouldn’t read western philosophy
You should read the classics but TAKE YOUR TIME with it.
You really should be very careful whose nonsense you’re reading and listening to
And then any time you hear something or read something — make sure you actually REMEMBER
-if it’s useful facts — implement them — and make sure you remember them
-if it’s life observations — make sure they relate to your experiences — and make sure you will remember them
If you don’t remember — then you’re over-learning already
Yes,
in essence:
-You really should cut entertainment almost to a minimum… but NOT to 0. To extremely little but more then 0
(LIFE-LIVING should be “entertaining” in and of itself. Pleasure was designed for you to live better — rather then you living better so that you get (empty) pleasure)
-Your average human probably should read much more — but he shouldn’t read a lot. If you read a lot — are you actually learning all that?
…this is of course simplified.
But no one who LIVES FULLY is living in front of a TV. Believe me
And no one whose DOING A LOT is merely sitting and reading. He’s DOING — AND reading.
Ask yourself — if you could do ANYTHING UNDER THE SUN, ANYTHING — would it be watching fucking TV? Or reading another book?
Usually not.
But if you’re ACTUALLY living EVERY moment to the fullest, LIVING your dream, CREATING new things and realities, to the extent to which it is possible, absolutely uncompromising — and you do this EVERY SINGLE MOMENT…
…then watching a TV show, once in a fucking blue moon…it will actually feel VERY satisfying!
It will be satisfying — for it will be so different and new. Indeed.
…But then it will get boring, obviously. Because LIVING TO THE FULLEST is infinitely more exhilarating then watching others pretend to live.
Therefore then you will live again, do things again, do something exciting again,
And once you utterly exhaust yourself — then you can sit and read, and learn, and maybe listen to the stories other have to tell
Do more, live more
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