Chelchel Peixoto

inquiry

conditional knowledge refers to knowing when and why you should use declarative and procedural knowledge, allocating your mental resources in a smart way to learn better. The more mental models you have in your toolbox, the more you will develop your conditional knowledge.

To fail like a scientist is to embrace the experimental nature of life. Everything is an experiment, every failure a learning opportunity.

It has the power to shape us by drawing us into conflict with ourselves. Without inner conflict, there is no forward movement.

A person experiencing social atrophy might not say “I am lonely” but rather, “I prefer to be alone” – or even in more dire cases: “people cannot be trusted.” They may no longer wish to share life with others

Evergreen notes should be densely linked

Judgment stands as an obstacle to self-love. Every time you judge, you separate. When you form opinions about another person, looking at him or her and saying, for instance, “This person is lazy, or a failure, or has terrible clothes,” you send a message to your subconscious that the world is a place where you had better act in certain ways if you

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Authenticity is attractive in part because it promises a sense of harmony, it is the promise that, if we know who we are, then we can act in a way where our actions are in alignment with our values. But the will is characterised by a sense of conflict. It is the inner organ that generates tension within the self, making one aware of the... See more

Whorf argued that our habitual use of language shapes how we perceive and interpret reality. The hypothesis exists in two forms: a weak version (linguistic relativity) and a strong version (linguistic determinism).