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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.
Ozan Varol • Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
In other words, what science shows us—even working through the “I know!” mind—is the don’t-know mind. Reality is unfathomably paradoxical. The mind that excludes can’t handle what we actually are. Only the mind that includes can hold the paradoxes of being. When we embrace don’t-know mind, we can find ourselves as drops of consciousness existing be
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• Just because something is fun for someone else doesn’t mean it’s fun for me. • It’s enormously helpful, and surprisingly difficult, to grasp the obvious. • You need new friends and old friends. • The quickest way to progress from A to B is not to work the hardest. • It’s easier to prevent pain than to squelch it (literally and figuratively). • Wh
... See moreKnowing that I could be painfully wrong and curiosity about why other smart people saw things differently prompted me to look at things through the eyes of others as well as my own.