There’s someone you disagree with That someone can also be very arrogant about it In which case it will really fucking annoy you It will annoy you much much more if you yourself are very very confident that they are wrong and you are right Then it will really really annoy you …
Tag: Humbleness
Arrogance vs Boldness and Courage
boldness is you take risks courage could imply you take wise risks, while mere fearlessness and boldness could be recklessness, or absence of fear – not the wise overcoming of fear arrogance is you’re stubborn maybe you talk too much too or maybe you don’t talk that much — you just don’t change your …
Should You Be Strategically Self-Effacing?
The real humility is epistemic humility You should just be REAL. As confident as warranted by data. No more, no less Reality tempers your confidence. You can be good but you’re never good enough. If life doesn’t humble you — you’re not challenging yourself enough Pretending you’re smaller than you are is …
The Courage to Be Ignorant
The main reason we fail to own up our ignorance is the discomfort of not having control the EXISTENTIAL DREAD, truly It’s better to rub a bromide in one’s own face than to face the abyss But the other reason is that we’re so tribal And tribes optimise themselves for homogeneity And no matter …
Observation Is the Beginning of Theories — and the End
You know, when you’re young and naive, you sometimes have an INSIGHT, you think you’re seeing something that others don’t you now think you know it all and usually you’re delusional, and yet you’re also right later you discover that people had written books about it, had this exact same “idea” that you …
Know You to Forget You
it’s like when you really know who you are, you don’t overthink it, it’s like a cat, you know it’s not a dog, you know it’s not a mouse, you know it has whiskers and a tail and a smug look on its face you’re not CONSIDERING if it’s better than other animals or worse, …
The True Meaning of “Beginner’s Mind” (Is Where Ego Resist)
What if I’m wrong What if I’m nothing special What if I fucked up What if all that is really fucking stupid What if they have a point What if they have a point What if there is an exception What more can I do What more can I do What’s the better way What …
The Modalities Of Understanding, And The Trap Of Borrowed Comprehension
You can read or hear something, Let’s assume that thing to be true, or useful Now there’s a number of things that can happen One option is that you DON’T UNDERSTAND it At which point — you can either be aware of this failure of comprehension, OR NOT The latter is of course …
When You’re a Public Person You Should Keep Your Mouth Shut
When you’re a public person — you probably ought to shut your fucking mouth No, not because you’re a coward, and scared of owning up to your beliefs But because you’re wise enough to understand that your cute little opinions are not so fucking important AND YET, may be misleading to others and …
If You Got Lucky — You’re Left With a Tall Order or Stagnation
Let’s say you got LUCKY, what now? -you think you deserve it, naturally -you think you’ve earned it -you think more great things will keep happening to you, your growth will continue at this dazzling pace Ironically it sometimes works this way, At least you’re not lacking confidence And you can use the accumulated …