Join 📚 Fabien's Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what Fabien's read, .
And yet the result has not been a greater respect for knowledge, but the growth of an irrational conviction among Americans that everyone is as smart as everyone else. This is the opposite of education, which should aim to make people, no matter how smart or accomplished they are, learners for the rest of their lives. Rather, we now live in a society where the acquisition of even a little learning is the endpoint, rather than the beginning, of education. And this is a dangerous thing.
The Death of Expertise
Tom Nichols
34. True-Believer Syndrome:
We often continue to believe something after it's been debunked, because belief is shaped not just by what we think is true, but also by what we'd prefer was true. To overcome this, always subtract your desire to believe from the available evidence.
My Friends, a New MEGATH...
@G_S_Bhogal on Twitter
This bias is revealed even more clearly in our relationship to leaders—if they express an opinion with heated words and gestures, colorful metaphors and entertaining anecdotes, and a deep well of conviction, it must mean they have examined the idea carefully to express it with such certainty. Those, on the other hand, who express nuances, whose tone is more hesitant, reveal weakness and self-doubt. They are probably lying, or so we think.
The Laws of Human Nature
Robert Greene
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise