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 …
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Details Are Distractions
details are distractions details only matter once you’ve handled the fundamentals to cling to details is a mark of an amateur amateur obsesses over details he will focus on minutia — without comprehending the whole he will obsess over tools — then make no use of them he will talk a lot but …
You Are Only What You Did TODAY
The more we understand the more nuance we unravel. When we don’t understand then we tend to think very black-and-white, either-or; It’s understandable, since the first nuance we pick is INDIVIDUATION: how something is distinguished from other things. This creates the fundamental dichotomy between the THING discussed and everything else (that this thing is …
Don’t Fail Without Reason
Don’t fail without good reason Don’t make a habit out of failing The purpose of failing is to win You fail many small times so that you can win big-time You experiment and explore so that you can innovate You fail so that you can discover a new way New, by definition, is …
Free From SIN, or The Antifragile Being
You want to be free from sin. You want to be free from vice. Do you know why you want to be free from sin? Because you’ll go to heaven. Now, I wouldn’t count on going to heaven after you die. After you die — chances are you’re going to go to the …
Should You Have A Clue (About The World)
If you have any business with the world — you should care about the world, should you not? -like when you do something — you know what you are doing and what you intend -when you give someone money — you know what you are expecting in return -when you’re trading value — you know …
Should You Sell You
You come into this world, You have your hands and your eyes and your ears and your brains, Ready to watch and listen and learn and think and DO You’ve some time for all those escapades, and then you’re going to die, and that’s the end of it, You’re going to die and you know …
The Age of Con and FAKENESS
What a day and age to be a con artist! You can write any nonsense on the internet and no one will know Used to be your fakeness and deceit would come through in your fake demeanour Now there’s no fake demeanour — just a fake online profile I never realised the scale of …
Get Back On Wrongdoers By Doing The Right Thing
Right action yields right returns Wrong action yields wrong returns Right action involves cooperation Cooperation is right because of sharing resources (mental, physical, energetic, etc) If someone refuses to cooperate or worse still — harms your cause he is not only harming you but himself he is wasting your precious resources — which …
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 …