critical thinking

The thing about emotions is: you can't selectively numb them. When you train yourself to avoid sadness, you also turn down joy. When you eliminate anger, you also eliminate passion. When you remove attachment, you also remove love.

You need both: a stable ground and the permission to dance on it.

The liberating arts are:

• Logic : how to derive truth from known facts


• Statistics : how to understand the implications of data


• Rhetoric : how to persuade, and spot persuasion tactics


• Research : how to gather information on an unknown subject


• (Practical) Psychology : how to discern and understand the true motives of others


• Investment : how to manage

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We've created a culture that treats depth like inefficiency. One that wants love without awkwardness, wisdom without confusion, transformation without the growing pains that crack us open and rebuild us from the inside out. And in doing so, we've accidentally engineered away the most essentially human experiences: the productive confusion of not... See more