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Because Elon, Gates, Carmack, Eintstein , Feynman, Bezos, Sheryl Sandberg, Buckminister, Darwin did less. Right.
To appear wise, say less.
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt." https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/17/remain-silent/
On wisdom, I am reminded of the Serenity Prayer- "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_Prayer)
To become wise, do everything, fuck up on most of it, and know what works and doesn't by direct experience. I am a minimalist (Essentialist) by choice, but a maximalist regarding knowledge and experience. Try and do everything you can, that way you know what does and doesn't work. Done. Anything else is overly reductive. You can't know how to do anything if you do or experience close to nothing. Leisure is good, I am…
Maybe people who do nothing and think all day assume they are wise, but it's the other way around. Experienced people are wise.
Thinking alone just creates false assumptions in your head. It's the doing part that will teach you, it's life itself that will be your toughest teacher.
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"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt." https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/17/remain-silent/
Takes one to know one
Thinking alone won't get you there. That will turn you into an "Intellectual Yet Idiot", as Nassim Taleb calls it.
To become wise, do everything, fuck up on most of it, and know what works and doesn't by direct experience. I am a minimalist (Essentialist) by choice, but a maximalist regarding knowledge and experience. Try and do everything you can, that way you know what does and doesn't work. Done. Anything else is overly reductive. You can't know how to do anything if you do or experience close to nothing. Leisure is good, I am…
I came here to say the exact same thing. Maybe people who do nothing and think all day assume they are wise, but it's the other way around. Experienced people are wise. Thinking alone just creates false assumptions in your head. It's the doing part that will teach you, it's life itself that will be your toughest teacher.
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And so much of it is rehashed ancient philosophy, such as "moderation in all things". So much of is basically the Tao Te Ching, or astrology. That is to say, it's not true! but over millennia, humans have found it to be useful. Try not to get annoyed by writing that isn't meant for you (assuming you don't get any value out of it, it's a tautology that you are not the intended audience.)
>> So much of is basically the Tao Te Ching, or astrology. I am having difficulty parsing your comment. You are equating Tao Te Ching and astrology in the same bucket ? One is a philosophy, a way of looking at life - the other I don't know what to call it. And if you say that both are ways of looking at the world then we can apply that yardstick to everything and it doesn't get us anywhere. >> That is to say, it's no…