This looks like “lies to kids”, but from the point of view of an adult realizing they have been lied to.
And “lies to kids”, that is pretty much how everything is taught, you can’t just go “U(1)...”, you start out with “light...”, and then maybe eventually when you told enough lies, you can say “ok that was all a lie, here it how it is” and then tell more lies. Do that for long enough and you hit ground truth.[1]
So what do you do?
Balance your lies when you teach others, maybe even say things like “ok, so this is not exactly true, but for now you will have to accept it, and eventually we can go deeper”.
And the other way around, if you read something or someone teaches you something, you should be cognizant that this is unlikely the true nature of whatever you read / are taught.
A) Be careful when you use your knowledge to synthesis ideas / solutions / insights.
B) Be curious, go down rabbit holes, get as much ground “truth” as possible.
This looks like “lies to kids”, but from the point of view of an adult realizing they have been lied to.
And “lies to kids”, that is pretty much how everything is taught, you can’t just go “U(1)...”, you start out with “light...”, and then maybe eventually when you told enough lies, you can say “ok that was all a lie, here it how it is” and then tell more lies. Do that for long enough and you hit ground truth.[1]
So what do you do?
Balance your lies when you teach others, maybe even say things like “ok, so this is not exactly true, but for now you will have to accept it, and eventually we can go deeper”.
And the other way around, if you read something or someone teaches you something, you should be cognizant that this is unlikely the true nature of whatever you read / are taught.
A) Be careful when you use your knowledge to synthesis ideas / solutions / insights.
B) Be curious, go down rabbit holes, get as much ground “truth” as possible.
That’s the compressed version of what I do.
Not really, unless we are talking about mathematics.
Related: https://xkcd.com/435/