There’s no limit to delusion when you don’t test your believes against the real world. Inexplicably delusional delusion is simply an untested belief. Harbour beliefs long enough without testing them — and you WILL be crazy. The very definition of madness is this extreme divergence from reality. Seeing things? Hearing things? Your …
Tag: Understanding
Get Yourself a Diary
Get yourself a diary Plenty of benefits just from the shortest notes I swear this should be one of the best investments of your entire life. If not the best Write down your thought Write down your emotion Write down your thought-emotion Then see it Read it Hear it as a third …
Solving Problems; The Problem of Clarity
Solving problems is easy when there is clarity. It’s absence of clarity which constitutes the real difficulty when solving problems. Bad formulation of a problem is a problem in itself. We make syntactical, formal logical errors in the way we approach a matter. The solutions will not make any sense because the problem …
Getting Smarter
Everyone wants to make more smart decisions but no one actively works on getting smarter. Everyone is looking for the next big thing and next cool trick but no one exercises the brain. You lift weights physically to strengthen your muscles but do you lift weights mentally? Do you hit your brain-muscles …
Terrible Shortcomings of the Winner’s Mentality
Does “winner’s mentality” make you win? Is “winner’s mentality” a good idea? Do you want to win? Do you want to do the right thing? What do you want? What’s winner’s mentality? I imagine it’s mentality of a person predisposed to win. If so – it’s related to winning. So does it make …
Chains Of Understanding
Complicated thing is simply a large enough chain of simple things. Simple explanation is not simplification, or reduction. Simple explanation is one that leads one smoothly through each part of the chain. People who can’t explain simply don’t truly understand the subject. Their chain of understanding is incomplete. One can always collect …
Self-Focused Learns Nothing Sees Nothing
Can you be looking at two things without dividing your attention? When you’re looking at an apple, can you simultaneously look at a pear, with the same attention? Or does your attention divide? What happens when you’re looking at yourself? You’re not looking at something else, are you? What happens when you …
The Curse Of Being Smart
The curse of being smart is that there are few to show you how stupid you are. Unintelligent people fail to perceive meaning and patterns. Intelligent people fail to perceive meaning and patterns.. The difference between an intelligent person and unintelligent is that intelligent person naturally perceives and understands more. However, being …
Do You Believe It Or Do You Want To Believe It?
Do you believe it? Or do you want to believe it? It’s a simple question, a simple idea – but we could all benefit from asking it more often. We want to believe many things. We want many things to be our way. We are petty and loud. We go about this world …
Look At The Intelligent
Our natural instinct is to look for ways to confirm our previous beliefs. It’s called confirmation bias. In fact it is not entirely useless. If we can find circumstances in which our beliefs are true – they practically become true. Pragmatically, your beliefs render you positive results. But for those of us concerned not …