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Knowledge exists on a barometer
The Four Stages of Knowledge
2. Cultivate curiosity to sprout and strengthen your roots.
3. Diligently mine information and build skill sets to grow your tree.
4. Produce and distribute seeds of your own to reiterate what you (think you) know.
Attentional Capital (AC)
- A high AC: you have obtained your information through focused and objective research and would be open to changing your position if presented with sufficient evidence.
- A low AC: you reactively believe whatever comes across your news feed and hold onto your beliefs in a dogmatic and tribal manner.
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Investigate fear factors
When we face our fear, to discover what it is and where it comes from, we can begin to heal. First, we must be gentle with ourselves as we transition from living with fear into managing it.
Let go of victimhood
Living with fear and being the victim feels like a comfortable place because we’ve lived there for so long.
But in reality, it's not a good place to be. Because anything is better than living with fear, the root of all of our inability to embrace opportunities and happiness.
The transition phase
Once we make it to the next level, where fear and victimhood no longer have power over us, we are in full transition.
This is where personal growth happens because this is where opportunities arise.
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There are 2 broad approaches to self-education 📖
- Learn-as-needed approach. You have a problem that needs solving, so you go and learn the things that will solve your problem.
- Learn-everything-you-can approach. Pi...
Skills and knowledge transfer far less than we would expect them to. So “broad-based” education is mostly a myth. What we learn is usually specific and often stuck to the contexts where it w...
Skills and knowledge transfer far less than we would expect them to. So “broad-based” education is mostly a myth. What we learn is usually specific and often stuck to the contexts where it was learned.
Many times it’s not obvious that knowledge can solve a problem until after you’ve acquired it. Unlike physical tools, mental ones are effectively invisible until after you’ve already learned them
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Rationalism
Rationalism is the philosophical idea where reason is the ultimate source of human knowledge.
It stands in contrast to empiricism, where the senses are enough to justify kn...
Descartes' Case for Rationalism
René Descartes thought we know objects through reason.
Simple problems may be solved using our senses, but more complicated issues need reason to figure it out. We can easily distinguish between a triangle and a square. But when we consider two polygons, one with a thousand sides and the other with a thousand and one sides, we use reason to tell them apart.
Rationalist vs empiricist debate
Rationalism characterizes a wide range of philosophical topics.
- How do we know who and what we are? Rationalists claim the self is known through rational intuition, while the empiricist thinks that the unity of the self is illusory.
- What is the nature of cause and effect? Rationalists claim casual links are known through reason. The empiricist replies that it is because of habit that we know, for example, that a fire is hot.
- How do we know which actions are ethically correct? Kant argued that ethical worth could only be understood from a rational perspective. Moral evaluation takes place when rational agents consider their actions under hypothetical conditions.