Progressive means RESULTING IN PROGRESS If it’s not resulting in PROGRESS — then it’s not really progressive, is it? Intention of progress is not progress Just like your intention to be famous and loved and big and strong doesn’t really make you famous and loved and big and strong and what-not In real …
Tag: Reality
About Victim-Bias
Of course we have a victim bias If nothing else, it would result from empathy To live after death, we must pass on part of ourselves Our genes Or our ideas Both would require protecting some entity weaker than us, until they are strong enough to indeed carry on this part of us So we …
The Arrogant Are Humble, The “Humble” Are Arrogant
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 …
The Problem With “Facts And Logic”
There are facts There are opinions and simplifications and emotions and distortions And there is the unknown Stupidity is human condition Craziness is human condition too Stupidity is but a cognitive failure. It’s a problem of seeing. Intellectual myopia Craziness is but psychological failure. It’s a problem of DISTORTION in what one is seeing. …
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 …
Intelligence Is Inseparable From Action Is Inseparable From Will
Let’s define intelligence in terms of cause and tangible effect It doesn’t have to be perfect cause and effect The point is that we get an effect at the end — which can be measured — and which adheres to the previous intentions This would be intelligence Let’s NOT define intelligence as mere coherence …
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 …
What If The Shallow Appearance Is Actually The Essence?
We live in the age of con and fakeness We live in the age of sales, and more sales, and more sales We witness mere symbols supplant the real thing Small wonder we are so sceptical We become sceptical We don’t want a pretty appearance to fool us We want the value “If …
Old Age and Wisdom
Some of the highest forms of wisdom is wisdom of that which persists That which persists — it just works That which persists — it has actually proven itself There’s enough brilliant ideas that don’t work And there’s enough brilliant ideas which seem to work — only to fail spectacularly That which actually works, not …