Anne-Laure Le Cunff @neuranne
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Anne-Laure Le Cunff @neuranne
Worth repeating:
Do not confuse retrieval with reasoning.
Do not confuse rote learning with understanding.
Do not confuse accumulated knowledge with intelligence.
“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” —Pierre-Marc-Gaston
Timothy Ferriss • Tools Of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
safeguard: Take time to distinguish real experts from imitators. Not everyone who claims to be an expert is. Take the time to know the difference.
Shane Parrish • Clear Thinking
wisdom is born of asking the right questions, not in knowing the right answers.
Lynn Serafinn • The 7 Graces of Marketing: how to heal humanity and the planet by changing the way we sell
"I grew up implicitly thinking that intelligence was this, like really special human thing and kind of somewhat magical. And I now think that it's sort of a fundamental property of matter..." @sama
A person acquiring a meme faces the same logical challenge as a scientist. Both must discover a hidden explanation. For the former, it is an idea in the minds of other people; for the latter, a regularity or law of nature.
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
Richard Feynman once wrote, “If you ever hear yourself saying, ‘I think I understand this,’ that means you don’t.”