Hello. My name is Tom. I’m 27 and currently working an a PhD in mathematics. I came to this site by following a chain of links that started with TVTropes of all things.
I have been a fan of rational thinking as long as I can remember. I’d always had the habit of asking questions and trying to see things from every point of view. I devoured all sorts of books growing up and shifted my viewpoints often enough that I became willing to accept the notion that everything I currently believe is wrong. That’s what pushed me to constantly question my own beliefs. I have read enough of this site to satisfy myself that it would be worthwhile to make an account and perhaps participate in the community that built it.
Hello. My name is Tom. I’m 27 and currently working an a PhD in mathematics. I came to this site by following a chain of links that started with TVTropes of all things.
I have been a fan of rational thinking as long as I can remember. I’d always had the habit of asking questions and trying to see things from every point of view. I devoured all sorts of books growing up and shifted my viewpoints often enough that I became willing to accept the notion that everything I currently believe is wrong. That’s what pushed me to constantly question my own beliefs. I have read enough of this site to satisfy myself that it would be worthwhile to make an account and perhaps participate in the community that built it.
Welcome to LW. At one point in my life I would read a randomly selected passage from the Enchiridion before going to sleep every night.
Which of them all?
Presumably that of Epictetus, the ancient Stoic.