Of course, the paucity of considered and calm debate on social media is not just because those who are more knowledgeable on a subject are less likely to engage, for there are many issues on which the informed and the uninformed obviously do battle. But, because it is a part of human nature, confirmation bias is just as likely to afflict both sides—even if one side is objectively more ‘right’. We are probably all guilty of this, however well-informed we think we are.
Today we are exposed to twenty-four-hour breaking news and an exponential rise in the amount of produced and consumed information. As the number of different issues that form our collective public discourse continues to increase, the amount of time and attention we are able to devote to each one inevitably gets compressed. It isn’t that our total engagement with all this information is any less, but rather that as the information competing for our attention becomes denser our attention gets spread more thinly, with the result that public debate becomes increasingly fragmented and superficial. The more quickly we switch between topics, the more quickly we lose interest in the previous one. We then find ourselves increasingly engaging only with those subjects that interest us, leading us to become less broadly informed—and potentially less confident in evaluating information outside of the spheres with which we are most familiar.
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of stars—mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is ‘mere’. I too see the stars on a desert night and feel them. But do I see less or more? … What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvellous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it?
Bir insan gerçekte ne kadar güçlüyse bunun reklamını yapma ihtiyacını da o kadar az duyar. Ve bir lider ne kadar güçlüyse gücünü gösterme ihtiyacını o kadar az hisseder.
The more powerful a person actually is the less he feels the need to advertise it. And the stronger a leader is the less he feels the need to show off his power.
Sayfa 100 - Pegasus Yayınları 1.BaskıKitabı okudu
"A youth loves immaturely, and immaturely
too he hates mankind and earth. Still tethered and heavy to him are his mind and the wings of his spirit.
But in a man there is more child than in a youth, and less melancholy; he knows more about death and life.
Free for death and free in death, a sacred nay-sayer when it is no longer time for yes: thus he knows about death and life."
On Free DeathKitabı okuyor
"And you too, for whom life is hectic work and unrest: are you not very weary of life? Are you not very ripe for the sermon of death?
All of you who are in love with hectic work and whatever is fast, new, strange – you find it hard to bear yourselves, your diligence is escape and the will to forget yourself.
If you believed more in life, you would hurl yourself less into the moment. But you do not have enough content in yourselves for waiting – not even for laziness!
Everywhere sounds the voice of those who preach death: and the earth is full of people to whom departure from life must be preached."
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Consistency\Intensity
The choice to lead with an infinite mindset is less like preparing for a football game and more like the decision to get into shape. There is no one thing we can do in order to get into shape. We can't simply go to the gym for nine hours and expect to be in shape. However, if we go to the gym ev- ery single day for twenty minutes, we will absolutely get into shape. Consistency becomes more important than intensity:
The problem is, no one knows exactly when we will see results.
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The group tracked the impact of research papers over time. They saw that papers with new knowledge combinations were more likely to be published in less prestigious journals, and also much more likely to be ignored upon publication. They got off to a slow start in the world, but after three years, the papers with new knowledge combos surpassed the conventional papers, and began accumulating more citations from other scientists. Fifteen years after publication, studies that made multiple new knowledge combinations were way more likely to be in the top 1 percent of most-cited papers.
To recap: work that builds bridges between disparate pieces of knowl- edge is less likely to be funded, less likely to appear in famous journals, more likely to be ignored upon publication, and then more likely in the long run to be a smash hit in the library of human knowledge.
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Overthinking seems like the "smart" way to launch, but its far less effective. Super-successful people do the opposite - they take action first, get real feedback and learn from that, which is million times more valuable than any book or course. And quicker!
Sayfa 35
