Every level of intelligence and ability has to solve the problem of ARROGANCE anew When you’re stupid you’re arrogant because you don’t know that you don’t know. Your stupid and wrong explanations fool you into false confidence You’ll take the dumbest explanation to the most complex problem, because you have no ability to discern …
Tag: Accountability
Modest In Understanding, Cautious In Action, Yet Utterly Arrogant In Speech
-your relation to most things is that “YOU DON’T KNOW” -and you know that you don’t know — because you could test it -you could test your understanding by making predictions -you could BET on your predictions -but you don’t. You know you’d lose Every action you take is a bet on certain state …
UNLUCKY Overstate The Role Of Luck — LUCKY Understate The Role Of Luck
The unlucky overstate the role of luck The lucky understate the role of luck It boils down to incentives, and even to epistemology (theory of knowledge) On the extreme — the extremely lucky has NO DATA invalidating the role of HIMSELF, and something SPECIAL about himself — in his exceptional outcomes He is, …
Act Like God, View Yourself as Scum
Act like God View yourself as no more than scum View yourself as no one, as a scum Scum that no one cares about Scum that people only deign to look at because they’ve still some benefit to obtain from you An animal to devour, an animal to mate with Act like god …
The 3 Questions For 3 Losers
You must look around and ask yourself “the 3 questions for 3 losers”: -are they a loser? -am I a loser? -are you a loser? You want: -REFERENCE of a loser is -awareness of LOSERS in your life, losers you tolerate -and also acceptance of yourself likely being a loser Loser means simply …
Why NOT Measuring Everything Is Stupid
I wrote once: MEASURE EVERYTHING It strikes me as even more obvious now: How COULD YOU NOT measure everything?! It’s not “why”, it’s “HOW CAN YOU NOT”? When you go to the shop, do you just eyeball how much you should pay? Do you look at the CART, and GUESS how VALUABLE all …
Build Great Business or Help Altruistically — No Middle Ground
There are mostly only two modes: –You help yourself and others by BUILDING something that they will VOLUNTARILY pay you for — because it benefits them.. and you benefit from the revenue -Or you just want to help others — therefore you… just do There’s VERY LITTLE gradient in between those two The first …
Moral ATROPHY on Social Media
The obvious, known evil of social media is audience capture = overwhelming incentive to please one’s audience and the ALGORITHM, at the expense of one’s own beliefs and integrity and morality. You become a mindless thoughtless zombie of feeding your audience and the algorithm what it wants You also become insensitive and blind to anything …
From Difference of Opinions to Blame Game to Strong Boundaries
Let’s say you like a STEAK — and she likes a SALAD You probably won’t have the same thing for dinner Now this is fine You just say: you get yourself your salad, and I’ll have my steak But let’s say you’re also very opinionated about superiority of steaks, over some shrubs You …
How We Became So Radicalised: The Great Debasement of Ideas
There’s doing and there’s talking Those who can’t do — talk Obviously But There’s the necessary talking Necessary thinking The talking and thinking we do — to decide what to DO Therefore politicians exist Journalists exist Writers exist Sociologists exist Philosophers exist Professors exist etc That too can be done more seriously …