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The Looking Glass: Faith and skepticism
- The great lie underneath it all is that once you collect enough mental models, you can skip the leap of faith. You can build a propositional bridge from your current self to your ideal self, and faithlessly slide across it. A seductive idea. But wrong and useless.
from 80/20 Personal Development by Daniel Kazandjian
Stuart Evans added
There’s a less obvious force that clouds our vision of our abilities: a deficit in metacognitive skill, the ability to think about our thinking. Lacking competence can leave us blind to our own incompetence.
from Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
Our ability to make the most out of uncertainty is what creates the most potential value. We should be fueled not by a desire for a quick catharsis but by intrigue. Where certainty ends, progress begins. Our obsession with certainty has another side effect. It distorts our vision through a set of funhouse mirrors called unknown knowns.
from Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life by Ozan Varol