Philosophy
Brian Sholis and
Philosophy
Wu Wei
The art of effortless action.
Being at peace while engaged in the most frenetic tasks so that one can carry these out with maximum skill and efficiency.
Being ‘in the zone’ – at one with what we are doing, in a state of profound concentration and flow.
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I’ve read thousands of books.
In 2010, I picked one up that would change my life.
The book: *Fooled by Randomness* by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb)
Over a decade later, the 5 lessons that have stayed with me:
How could gaining knowledge amount to anything other than discovering what was already there? How could the truth of a statement or a theory be anything but its correspondence to facts that were fixed before we started investigating them?
Some philosophers have argued that, despite widespread intuitions to the contrary, knowledge is not merely a... See more
Some philosophers have argued that, despite widespread intuitions to the contrary, knowledge is not merely a... See more
Céline Henne • Frameworks
“Every journey is a question of sorts, and the best journeys are the ones in which every question opens into deeper and more searching questions.”
— Pico Iyer, The Pilgrim’s Way on Waking Up
phenomenology
a philosophy of experience that seeks to explain the nature of things through the way people experience them
Stuart Evans • 47 cards