Highlights Newsletter: Three New Books 🍉
Talk with people you usually avoid. Pursue subjects you know nothing about, and experiences unlike anything you’ve done before. If you’re not surprised — if you didn’t feel your brain changing — then you didn’t really learn.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Another quality I have noticed in very intelligent people is being unafraid to look stupid.
Nabeel Qureshi • How To Understand Things
“A strategy for thinking clearly: Rather than trying to be right, assume you are wrong and try to be less wrong.
Trying to be right has a tendency to devolve into protecting your beliefs.
Trying to be less wrong has a tendency to prompt more questions and intellectual humility.”
Trying to be right has a tendency to devolve into protecting your beliefs.
Trying to be less wrong has a tendency to prompt more questions and intellectual humility.”
James Clear • 3 Ideas, 2 Quotes, 1 Question (August 29, 2019) | James Clear
In the end, if we don’t prove ourselves wrong, others will do it for us. If we pretend to have all the answers, our cover will eventually be blown. If we don’t recognize the flaws in our own thinking, those flaws will come to haunt us.