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With this in mind, I wonder if we might say that western civilisation is showing growing signs of right-hemisphere damage (this is a metaphor, by the way). We are living through an increasingly context-blind, literalist age. Cancellation, the assault on history, political polarisation, the deficit of irony and nuance, particularly in the online world: all seem to conform to this pattern.
This Complex, Nuanced World Has a Right-Hemisphere Problem
Matthew Syed
The first thing is having a healthy paranoia for trying to find out what you don’t know that you don’t know. The question I would ask myself — even in the beginning, and I still do today — is, six months from now, 12 months from now, five years from now, what will I wish I had been doing today or learning today?
Drew Houston of Dropbox: Figure Out the Things You Don’t Know - NYTimes.com
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"The secret to happiness is to lower your expectations, that is what you compare your experience with. If your expectations and standards are very high and only allow yourself to be happy when things are exquisite, you'll never be happy and grateful. There will always be some flaw. But compare your experience with lower expectations, especially something not as good, and you'll find much in your experience of the world to love, cherish and enjoy, every single moment." - Charlie Munger
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