Some items are pretty much exactly what I need for my goals, and if I had a lot of time I could try a lot more.
Sadly I need to get as smart as I can really fast. I do know a lot of things that are going in my “first century of life” list, though.
I don’t judge other people for being stupid anymore than I would judge a dog for being stupid.
It’s funny, I got to a similar moral conclusion about an hour before reading it in your answer.
I think of dumb people more like kittens and less like bad guys.
This is an extremely useful way to think about it.
If you are right then you live in an extremely inefficient world and can make a killing.
I have had an insistent feeling about this for a while, but I just had vague ideas I couldn’t focus on or test. This seems an extremely good point from which to start thinking about it.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed person is dictator. It’s good to be the dictator. If you’re not dictator then either you are blind or you do not live in the land of the blind.
I guess it’s not really relevant, but this is the first time someone manages to describe my exact feelings about this. Thank you.
(Not that I want to literally be a dictator, I’m stating it out loud just so I don’t risk being misunderstood by someone else who hasn’t had my exact thoughts)
Teach yourself to read and write Chinese. (This is my favorite antidote for thinking you’re smarter than other people.) Then read The Art of War in its original language.
I had tried to idly learn Japanese as a past time, it took me around five days to realise it was just wasted time if I couldn’t dedicate some serious efforts to it. I think I was told by friends that Chinese is substantially harder. Could you give me an estimate of how much The Art of War loses when read in a good translation?
This is… an impressive list. I really mean it.
Some items are pretty much exactly what I need for my goals, and if I had a lot of time I could try a lot more.
Sadly I need to get as smart as I can really fast. I do know a lot of things that are going in my “first century of life” list, though.
It’s funny, I got to a similar moral conclusion about an hour before reading it in your answer.
This is an extremely useful way to think about it.
I have had an insistent feeling about this for a while, but I just had vague ideas I couldn’t focus on or test. This seems an extremely good point from which to start thinking about it.
I guess it’s not really relevant, but this is the first time someone manages to describe my exact feelings about this. Thank you.
(Not that I want to literally be a dictator, I’m stating it out loud just so I don’t risk being misunderstood by someone else who hasn’t had my exact thoughts)
I had tried to idly learn Japanese as a past time, it took me around five days to realise it was just wasted time if I couldn’t dedicate some serious efforts to it. I think I was told by friends that Chinese is substantially harder. Could you give me an estimate of how much The Art of War loses when read in a good translation?
When translated into English, The Art of War loses almost as much as Romeo and Juliet loses when translated into Japanese.
If you can’t read it in Chinese then this the best translation I know of.