unexplainable
the things that are hard to explain in words
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"We teachers - perhaps all human beings - are in the grip of an astonishing delusion. We think that we can take a picture, a structure, a working model of something, constructed in our minds out of long experience and familiarity, and by turning that model into a string of words, transplant it whole into the mind of someone else. Perhaps once in a
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Articulating ideas as simply as possible is attractive, not least because getting people to agree with us is attractive. But we have a tendency to overrate ideas that can be shared easily, with the most apparent advantages. By constant simplifying, we may be lulled into abridging our own ideas a little too much, and sooner or later our audience—or ... See more
simonsarris.substack.com • Long Distance Thinking
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The Best Way To Answer “So What Do You Do?” | Clay Hebert | TEDxReno
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Many people who are talented in their various fields have access to insight they can’t share with others. They simply see something we can’t. They try to describe it—picture any Paris Review interview—and often hearing them talk about their process is interesting and informative. But they’re unable to describe the core thing—what gives them the sto... See more
Ava • inarticulable knowledge
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Since the beginning of time, the answer to “What do you do?” could be answered with one word.
Finance. Sales. Education.
But today, most jobs exist in liminal spaces: Kind of like this but also not quite that.
It may have been fair to think that any explanation longer than a one-word, universally understood, job title was just an attempt to l
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“It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.”
― Anthony Doerr
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Peter Attia: "One of the things about our society that's problematic is everybody wants an elevator pitch for everything."
@PeterAttiaMD https://t.co/tCHdZGyT1G
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