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If you’re an amateur your focus should be on avoiding stupidity, not seeking brilliance.

https://fs.blog/2014/06/avoiding-stupidity/

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Wesco continues to try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric. … It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent. There must be some wisdom in the folk saying, `It’s the strong swimmers who drown.’

Charlie Munger, Damn Right!: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger , https://fs.blog/2014/06/avoiding-stupidity/

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What Does Immersing Yourself in a Book Do To Your Brain?

Only connect. –E.M. Forster The act of taking on the perspective and feelings of others is one of the most profound, insufficiently heralded contributions of the deep-reading processes. Proust’s de…

Turkle attributes the loss of empathy largely to their inability to navigate the online world without losing track of their real-time, face-to-face relationships. In her view our technologies place us at a remove, which changes not only who we are as individuals but also who we are with one another.

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Good incentives acknowledge recognition, public perception, and the value of pursuing work that we can be proud of. So yes, if we want to persuade, we should appeal to interests not reason. But when it comes to interests, appeal not just to net worth but also to self-worth. First, the behavior you see is usually the result of incentives you don't see. Second, we generally get the behavior we reward.

Laurence Enderson c/o Farnam Street Blog

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A method is termed scientific if it can be stated in such a way that a certain defined result would cause it to be proved false.

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Reading Books and Learning - Farnam Street Blog

There are four main questions you need to ask of every book:

What is this book about?

What is being said in detail and how?

Is this book true in whole or in part?

What of it?

https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/how-to-read-a-book/

There are four simple steps to the Feynman Technique, which I'll explain below:

Choose a Concept

Teach it to a Toddler

Identify Gaps and Go Back to The Source Material

Review and Simplify (optional)

https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2012/04/learn-anything-faster-with-the-feynman-technique/

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If you want to win an argument, ask the person trying to convince you of something to explain how it would work.

Feynman technique , fsblog

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