there is only one sin and it's refusing to accept feedback from reality
Ayn Rand: "You can avoid reality. But you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality". This is an apt analogy for over-motivated marketing/sales folks trying to optimize for the short-term, at the expense of fixing the real underlying (product) issue, or those who are gaming scorecards, rather than focusing on true financial bottom-line.
If you believe in an absolute truth revealed by a transcendent power, you cannot allow yourself to admit any error, for that would nullify your whole story. But if you believe in a quest for truth by fallible humans, admitting blunders is part of the game.
Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
"There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means." (Ryan Holiday, The Obstacle Is the Way)
Napkin. Your best ideas.
“What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.”
— Hannah Arendt
— Hannah Arendt
truth has no medium
if something only appears true for a certain segment of history, or only appears true for a certain group of people, or only appears true for in certain test cases, it probably isn’t the truth, and you should discard that way of thinking as best as you can
the impact of this ranges from something as small as choosing a different r
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