Some ideas to keep coming often
The small subset of the world that an animal is able to detect is its umwelt. The bigger reality, whatever that might mean, is called the umgebung.The interesting part is that each organism presumably assumes its umwelt to be the entire objective reality “out there”.
Behavioral Inevitability : “History never repeats itself; man always does.” – Voltaire
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A principle isn’t a principle until it costs you something.
- Bill Bernbach
Berkson’s Paradox : Strong correlations can fall apart when combined with a larger population. Among hospital patients, motorcycle crash victims wearing helmets are more likely to be seriously injured than those not wearing helmets. But that’s because most crash victims saved by helmets did not need to become hospital patients, and those without
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There are the two convictions: one that focuses on the numbers and one that feels.
We create problems for ourselves by using static language (e.g. judgements) to capture a reality that is dynamic & ever changing — by mixing observations and evaluations
The feeling of clarity can be dangerously seductive. It is the feeling associated with understanding things. And we use that feeling, in the rough-and-tumble of daily life, as a signal that we have investigated a matter sufficiently. The sense of clarity functions as a thought-terminating heuristic
“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing." - Pascal…but …..The reason has its heart of which the heart feels nothing…