Life lessons
How to live.
Life lessons
“You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.”
Some things just take time: compounding, craftsmanship, and good judgment.
6. One of the clearest signs of intelligence is being able to hear an opinion you disagree with and not act emotionally
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Keep your distance from people who've made being wronged their identity. They're not looking for solutions, they're recruiting.
And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns… that I would have to start believing in possibilities that I wouldn’t have allowed before, that I had been closing my creativity down to a very narrow, controllable scale… that things had become too familiar and I might have to disorient myself.
-Bob Dylan
Erdős was so prolific because he collaborated. He was aware of the limits of his knowledge, and actively sought collaborators to move mathematics ahead. He was willing to let go of his ego and enmesh himself with other experts.
He was willing to get down from his peak, walk, and climb the next peak. And do it all over again. Over an entire... See more
He was willing to get down from his peak, walk, and climb the next peak. And do it all over again. Over an entire... See more
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem.
That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all.
That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all.