Sublime

I’m bored with making generalizations about groups. I want to see people deeply, one by one.

And all these different skills rest on one foundational skill: the ability to understand what another person is going through.

Dans leur ouvrage Practical Wisdom1, le psychologue Barry Schwartz et le politologue Kenneth Sharpe

An education in human variety prepares you to welcome new people into your life.

Societies that adopt innovative, predictive, and adaptive models designed around a significant, ongoing redistribution of global resources will be most likely to survive in the future.

I’m breaking out these Diminisher proclivities to emphasize that seeing another person well is the hardest of all hard problems.

He’d heard Murray Gell-Mann, a Nobel laureate in physics, hold forth on seemingly every subject under the sun. After Gell-Man was done, Amos said, “You know, Murray, there is no one in the world who is as smart as you think you are.”

Wise people don’t just possess information; they possess a compassionate understanding of other people. They know about life.