Saved by unoptimal and
Non-exemplary lives
Author Nassim Taleb on why earned knowledge and being in the details is superior:
“The knowledge we get by tinkering, via trial and error, experience, and the workings of time, in other words, contact with the earth, is vastly superior to that obtained through reasoning, something self-serving institutions have been very busy hiding from us.”
“The knowledge we get by tinkering, via trial and error, experience, and the workings of time, in other words, contact with the earth, is vastly superior to that obtained through reasoning, something self-serving institutions have been very busy hiding from us.”
Inexperience is ignorance.
via How People Think
It’s hard to empathize with other people’s beliefs if they’ve experienced parts of the world you have not.
Jason Zweig of the Wall Street Journal wrote last week: If I ask you in a questionnaire whether you are afraid of snakes, you might say no. If I throw a live snake in your lap and then ask if you’re