To be TRULY HUMBLE — you have to be TRULY INVESTED in your OUTCOMES and IMPROVEMENT Because only in being INVESTED, in having skin in the game and soul in the game — you actually care about the REALITY Because if you don’t get the reality right — you FAIL And you don’t want to …
Tag: Learning
True Wisdom Is Advantage Anywhere
True wisdom is an advantage anywhere In any endeavour No, being a scholar, an academic, an egghead, a nerd, a know-it-all — is NOT an advantage anywhere It’s rather a disadvantage An einstellung effect, You have some clue about some narrow nonsense made up fragment of reality — and you believe it gives you …
Foundational Bricks of Understanding
Knowledge is built of foundational bricks The bricks not always fit together neatly Sometimes the layout can be a little confused But the bricks exist And some bricks are more fundamental than others Some bricks are laid at the bottom, as uttermost foundations, supporting the rest of the edifice Some are laid right …
Answer Disagreement with More, More, More Depth
There exist views and opinions and perspectives which are extremely repugnant to your views and opinions and perspectives and beliefs The default response is more conflict, more repudiation, more stubbornness The false adaptation is argumentum ad temperantiam — argument to moderation. Like all fallacies is distorts the reality in some way, by imposing it’s …
Genius Is Indeed Madness
There’s the regular and there’s the exceptional. There’s the normal and there’s the abnormal. Abnormal, which can be positively abnormal (genius) — or negatively abnormal (madness). With the normal being normal, regular, predictable, common, mediocre, and quite functional. Thus already the common denominator of both genius and madness is that both are abnormal, both …
Knowing a Formula — vs Actually APPLYING It
When you were in school, on your mathematics classes, you would learn a formula And then you had to apply this formula to solve a problem Knowing the formula was sufficient to solve the problem But it DIDN’T YET solve the problem You still had to apply this formula And that you had to …
Rationalise The Irrational, Subjectify The Objective
There’s the known the logical, the understandable, the measurable, the objective, the rational, etc. And there’s the unknown, the inscrutable, the subjective, the irrational, etc Our idea of the world is obviously a blend of the two Concepts which are logical, which are coherent, which are sensible, Observations which suggest a generalisation with greater …
Outcomes vs Methods, Imitation vs Realness
There’s the OUTCOME you want to attain. And there’s HOW you attain that outcome. The OUTCOME is concrete . But the “HOW” is more vague The “HOW” is sometimes clear and sometimes utterly obscure, and usually partly clear and partly obscure. To get the OUTCOME you are looking for the “HOW”. You follow, IMITATE …
There’s No Confidence, There’s No Humility — Only Action
It matters not what your ability is What matters is if you understand the extent of your ability, your competence, your knowledge “I know I know nothing” “All I want to know where I’m going to die so I’ll never go there” “To know what you know and what you do not know, that …
Value and Forgetfulness
Data has value. Just like gold has value. Data is stored. Just like gold is stored. We retrieve the data from the store in order to access it’s value. Just like we retrieve the gold from our safe in order to sell it and cash out on it’s value. Now, If you had forgotten …