feature or a bug?
how advantages can be disadvantages and strengths can be weaknesses
feature or a bug?
I developed the governing impression that our minds are wonderful explanation machines, capable of making sense out of almost anything, capable of mounting explanations for all manner of phenomena, and generally incapable of accepting the idea of unpredictability.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Incerto Book 2)
You're under no obligation to remain the same person you were a year ago, a month ago, or even a day ago. You are here to create yourself, continuously.
Prof. Feynmanx.comWe should accept that our brains are strange, delicate instruments that evade our direct commands and are perplexingly talented at warding off the very ideas that might save us or help us flourish.
The School of Life • How to Think More Effectively: A guide to greater productivity, insight and creativity (Work series)
Someone dumber and lazier than you is making 10x the money because they are too dumb to doubt themselves.” - Kyle Harrison via Trevor McKendrick newsletter
From George Mack newsletter
The human mind is a remarkable contraption, great at keeping us psychologically buoyant in periods of chaos and allowing us to pay the price later, once the storm has settled.
Rob Henderson • Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
The “thinking mind” is the part of the mind that seeks to make sense of the world; it analyses situations, imagines scenarios, evaluates solutions, and tells stories. It’s an inherent aspect of what makes us human. However, it’s limited by multiple cognitive bottlenecks.
The human mind has many limitations. For instance, our limited sensory... See more
The human mind has many limitations. For instance, our limited sensory... See more
Ness Labs • Cognitive bottlenecks: the inherent limits of the thinking mind
Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
Richard Feynman
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
— Ralph Waldo Emerson