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It's funny, I always considered myself one of the most humble people i know. Guess this explains why I am so knowledgeable about so many topics.
The trouble is most people believe me when I say I'm not that smart.
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity" - The Second Coming (poem).
> The fact is, people who base their self-worth on being right about everything prevent themselves from learning from their mistakes. They lack the ability to take on new perspectives and empathize with others. They close themselves off to new and important information. From The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck.
> The fact is, people who base their self-worth on being right about everything prevent themselves from learning from their mistakes. I've never heard of this happening can you give examples on this site?
In times where I'm invested in being right, it's harder to accept learning that I had been wrong, and I'm certainly not seeking out more information with which to challenge my understanding.
> The fact is, people who base their self-worth on being right about everything prevent themselves from learning from their mistakes. They lack the ability to take on new perspectives and empathize with others. They close themselves off to new and important information. From The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck.
Or is there something deeper from the book that better explains the point?
> The fact is, people who base their self-worth on being right about everything prevent themselves from learning from their mistakes. They lack the ability to take on new perspectives and empathize with others. They close themselves off to new and important information. From The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck.
> The fact is, people who base their self-worth on being right about everything prevent themselves from learning from their mistakes. I've never heard of this happening can you give examples on this site?
It's funny, I always considered myself one of the most humble people i know. Guess this explains why I am so knowledgeable about so many topics.
This is the paragon of humble-brags.
It's funny, I always considered myself one of the most humble people i know. Guess this explains why I am so knowledgeable about so many topics.
> The fact is, people who base their self-worth on being right about everything prevent themselves from learning from their mistakes. They lack the ability to take on new perspectives and empathize with others. They close themselves off to new and important information. From The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck.
The chapter about the author's wannabe hustler friend described them like it was a biography.
> The fact is, people who base their self-worth on being right about everything prevent themselves from learning from their mistakes. They lack the ability to take on new perspectives and empathize with others. They close themselves off to new and important information. From The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck.
> The fact is, people who base their self-worth on being right about everything prevent themselves from learning from their mistakes. I've never heard of this happening can you give examples on this site?
I would point to cryptocurrencies as a rich source of extremely wrong takes: how bitcoin would replace paypal and credit cards, how government conspiracies would try to fight it, etc. None of those predictions came to pass, to put it mildly. What I can't offer is specific instances of people pivoting from "it's a currency! It even has 'coin' in its name!" to "it's not a currency! It's a store of value". But I'm sure there must be some.
I also remember when here (and, possibly, on slashdot before HN) one overdone "meme" was criticising CSI-style shows for "enhance!" making low-res images of license plates readable. "You cannot recover information that isn't there!" the comment would go, and it was the easiest upvote to get.
Today, there are plenty of AI demos that can, indeed, reconstruct license plates from low-res. Turns out the information wasn't actually lost. Unfortunately, I'm denied the gratification of all those people writing apologies, and I can't prove that they are the ones posting "It's not intelligence, it's just statistics!" today.
Nuclear power might be another example on a pretty good multi-decades run of varying other reactor technologies (pebble bed, fusion, etc) always on the cusp of breakthrough. This example is especially funny, because the actual scientists working on energy, and even the supposedly stupid politicians, have now created alternatives that are safe, clean, and close to competing with even coal in economic terms, let alone the far more expensive nuclear tech. Yet the wider tech community disregards this economic argument, and insists on fighting the public on safety. They just can't let go because they feel they were wronged on that issue in the 80s and 90s. Which is at least plausible, but it just doesn't really matter any more. There's a strong undercurrent of cultural grievances here, as if people were forever living in the science fiction of their youth.