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Because going against our natural inclinations can make us feel like impostors, we tend to latch on to authenticity as an excuse for sticking with what’s comfortable.
Shaping Your Authenticity
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Adler and Van Doren suggest that the first and most important rule of skillful reading, active reading, is asking questions and trying to answer them. If you just dwell on that, what kinds of questions should I be asking and how should I go about asking them? How should I go about answering them when the author isn't present? And so on and so forth. [Unclear] They also say conversely, and this is meant as a criticism, an undemanding reader asks no questions and gets no answers.
Andy Matuschak - Self-Teaching, Spaced Repetition, Why Books Don’t Work
Dwarkesh Patel
It makes no difference whether it lasts a long time or whether it lasts a short time.
A galaxy goes together with all the universe just as much as a mosquito. You can get a certain vision of life where everything is seen to be a complex pattern of rhythm dances the human dance the flower dance the bee dance the giraffe dance.
And that's what this all is, it's jazz. You see? This is a big jazz, this world. And what it's trying to do is to see how jazzed up it can get. How far out this play of rhythm can go.
Everything | Gameplay Film
David OReilly
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