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Language has its own register, like music, and depending on the “octave” or the tone that you’re using, there are connotations, there are meanings, implicit in tone.
Ocean Vuong on Taking the Time You Need to Write
Literary Hub
They will envy you for your success, for your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status—but rarely for your wisdom.
The Bed of Procrustes
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“The ability to destroy your ideas rapidly instead of slowly when
the occasion is right is one of the most valuable things.
You have to work hard on it.
Ask yourself what are the arguments on the other side.
It’s bad to have an opinion you’re proud of if you can’t state the
arguments for the other side better than your opponents.
This is a great mental discipline.”
The Work Required to Have an Opinion
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