033 Being Normal vs Being Crazy
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Being Normal vs Being Crazy
I tweeted this today morning:
It's a bit rare to find someone "crazy". Most don't want that tag behind their character so they tend to stick to what's normal.
But exceptional people are not normal as the word itself suggests. They sound "crazy" to normal people because they're different.
Peter Diamandis had it right when he said,
"The day before something is a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea."
The Amazing Things & Ideas List
Seneca on the cause of cruelty:
“All cruelty springs from weakness.” — Seneca
(could relate to Putin and the current war affairs, maybe?)
David Deutsch on how people comprehend the same things differently:
"when people are trying to understand an idea that they hear from others, they typically understand it to mean what makes most sense to them, or what they’re most expecting to hear, or what they fear to hear, and so on.
Those meanings are conjectured by the listener or reader, and may differ from what the speaker or writer intended." — David Deutsch
Best book on the philosophy of science & theory of knowledge:
The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
This book explains how knowledge gets created.
Knowledge does not happen through observation as most would suspect. It happens through conjecture (making reasonable guesses) and criticism. In other words, knowledge is invented, not always simply discovered.
The book is densely packed with a lot of elegant information which totally blew my mind and introduced me to a whole new amazing field — the theory of knowledge — and grew my interest in the philosophy of science and studying the truth. HIGHLY recommend.
(oh and yes, the above quote is from that book)
This post is NOT for you:
This Discourse Is Not For You by Kapil Gupta MD
This "discourse" explains human behavior and why "Lies have always been in demand". It's not for you if you don't like hearing the truth and live a life full of lies comfortably.
If you think it is for you, read the short discourse here.
Thank you for reading.
Onward,
Arjun
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