At any given subject you have a certain understanding This understanding could be shallow and general, or it could be deep and detailed There are two reasons why you don’t necessarily always want a high level of detail: -observing, understanding details, then creating a detailed model — are resources-consuming. You may want to devote …
Tag: Cognitive Bias
SPIRITUAL EXPANSION AND CONSOLIDATION
There are two modes: expansion and consolidation One is expansive and open and adventurous and MOVING Other is enclosing and retaining and protective and settling We obviously rely on both: acquiring resources — then retaining them. If you’re only acquiring and never retaining — than your work is futile. Water seeps through your hands. …
Simple But Not Easy
There’s what’s difficult and there’s what’s simple. But then there’s “simple but not easy”. How can something be “simple but not easy”? In truth, it can’t! It doesn’t make any sense, it’s paradoxical. The true meaning of “simple but not easy” is that it is UNKNOWN The difficulty is ultimately UNKNOWN, in how: -it …
Too Good To Be True
“It’s too good to be true” No, not necessarily There’s what you know is possible There’s what you know is not possible And there’s what you don’t know is possible That which you don’t know if it’s possible — that will elude your imagination You’ll say it’s “too good to be true”, or …
It’s Not So Easy to Stay Ignorant if You Ask Questions
I observed that fools don’t ask questions. I also observed that real fools don’t ask questions — even when they don’t have a clue Know a fool if he doesn’t ask you questions about something he clearly doesn’t have a clue about Some men ask questions. Some men ask questions about that which they …
Bad Luck is Great
Bad luck is great It’s always nice to get lucky — but what came for free is what you didn’t learn to earn What you can get IN SPITE of bad luck — is what truly leaves a mark TREMENDOUSLY lot in life depends on luck If you disagree than you’re a fool and …
Debating is a Stupid Game
Debating is a game. Debating is not the pursuit of truth. You pursue truth by living life, taking action, taking risks, observing results, verifying your models, taking more action, taking more risks. This is how the truth is revealed to you. You live it and you pay for it. Debating is not the pursuit …
There’s Only Seeing
There’s only SEEING or NOT SEEING. Failure of logic is the failure of seeing There’s the reality — which is the way things are — and either you see it, or not. When you’re making a logical error — it’s either that you didn’t see how things truly work (“bad logic”), or you’re losing …
You’re Not a Bad Person
You’re not perfect — but you probably are NOT a “bad person” Bear with me We humans are sometimes too binary (and sometimes not binary enough) When things really matter — things like life and death — we learn to be decisive, we learn to be binary Things like good and bad We learn …
Neither Innovative Nor Traditional Can Be Appraised
You want to know what’s the next big thing going to be You want to know what’s the next big thing NOT going to be You want to know where to put your resources: your time, your energy, your capital, your attention You live in the world therefore you’re interested in the world therefore you’re …