Make it harder to make it easier Try doing it the hard way so that the regular way will become easier Easier and more effective and more successful This making-it-harder strategy is basically finding a new angle, new approach, finding a way to look outside the box The added difficulty forces you to adapt …
Tag: Learning
You’re Not Qualified To Have An Opinion
You’re not qualified to have an opinion You are only qualified if it’s: -your direct experience/observation -or a result of thorough study of the subject Everyone is good at talking Everyone has an opinion I won’t say no one is qualified — most people are qualified to speak of some subjects But they …
Perils of Learning Alone
The greatest peril of “self-taught” mentality is the bubble of greatness you blow around yourself, also referred to as “ignorance”, “Dunning–Kruger effect”, et al. It’s not that KNOWLEDGE isn’t there It is But you applying it — within your echo chamber of self-satisfaction — prevents you from receiving the crucial negative feedback The …
EVERYONE IS IGNORANT BUT THE REAL-WORLD DOERS
here’s the Truth, and I mean it when I say it, THE TRUTH: —EVERYONE IS INVARIABLY IGNORANT BUT THE REAL-WORLD DOERS —EVERYTHING WHICH IS NOT APPLIED IS NONSENSE —ONLY REAL WORLD ACTIONS MATTER There are infinitely many possibilities. A “possibility” is by definition logical. It’s a possibility. It “could” happen. Nothing’s illogical about it. …
Sit In The Room Until You’ve Figured It Out
You should always conclude Why half-do things and half-finish things? It’s either done or not We don’t conclude and it’s a problem and it’s perhaps the main reason we’re so ineffective — leaving half the things half done — therefore NOT done And it’s no different with our understanding of the world You should …
Everything Is Different Then It Looks
Everything is different then it looks Obviously How something looks conveys only limited information about the object And yet we act and we think as though our perception of a thing, coming from indirect experience, is objective, and gives us realistic image of the whole You think you want something but what do you …
The PREDICAMENTS of “Wisdom”
There’s the existence. Existence which you were burdened with. Existence and the problems of existence. All problems are problems of existence. Your “petty” quotidian problems are still problems of existence (or rather, those are the real problems of existence) You solve problems, You solve problems and learn, You solve problems and learn and …
Anti-Motivation
I do enjoy seeing someone fail. Does it make me feel better about myself? No. But it does teach me what NOT to do. Failure teaches you more then success does. Failure is more tangible. You have far more control over failing the you have over “succeeding”, Anyone can get lucky. Chances are your …
YOU WANT TO THINK MORE AND DO MORE
-there’s the thinking vs doing dichotomy -first one only does — breaths, walks, eats, lives… -then one hopefully learns to think; Not everyone does, mind you -then, some of us become infatuated, with this THINKING-GAME -thinking can then become an end in and of itself -one then hopefully returns to doing -this doing must …
For Every Person That Agrees With You Find Someone Or Something That Doesn’t
-there’s what you know you don’t agree with -there’s what you know you agree with -there’s what you don’t know whether you agree with or disagree with if you have any tolerance for what you know you disagree with – you are wasting your precious time Plenty men waste their time We’re too …