Mickey Patel
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Mickey Patel
Many people learn only in their frst third of life, so schools don’t teach unlearning. We want to see the world clearly and know what’s what. But once we’re past the frst stage of wisdom, the next stage involves adapting to new changes. We don’t get wise just by adding and adding. We also need to subtract.
Hell_Yeah_or_No • Sivers
Unlearning
Honesty is a core, core, core value. By honesty, I mean I want to be able to just be me. I never want to be in an environment or around people where I have to watch what I say. If I disconnect what I’m thinking from what I’m saying, it creates multiple threads in my mind. I’m no longer in the moment—now I have to be future-planning or
... See moreTim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
I often feel this way. I think most people do
Summarization technology is the ultimate device: it promises to deliver the benefits of complex thought without requiring us to do the thinking. But thinking, like fitness, is a practice that can only be developed through regular engagement with resistance. Outsource the resistance, and you lose the capacity. Let machines do your intellectual heavy... See more
compression culture is making you stupid and uninteresting
On the airplane, we are told to secure our oxygen masks before we help another with their oxygen mask. This is beautifully symbolic. For the world teaches us exactly the opposite. And it is for this reason that man suffocates in a world filled with oxygen.
Kapil Gupta • Atmamun
Look after yourself first
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you
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