From the article:
- It just needs for the writer to work hard to make it clear Writing is humanity’s superpower — when done well, it informs, provokes, and entertains.
- When an author takes the time to prepare a high-quality article, knowledge flows seamlessly from one mind to another.
- If you’re curious about a topic, or even confused by it, the best thing you can do is write about it.
Particularly like his honesty, exposing his vulnerabilities in a way we can only laugh, and reflect on it ourselves.
Whether you're an artist, an entrepreneur or aspire to improve yourself, you certainly can relate to his work and self-reflections.
Accelerated learning tech will open the polymath doors again.
Accelerated learning is fascinating because learning today is so inefficient. Combine that with the massive knowledge that accumulates over the years.
Elon Musks said it himself. Along with Solar Energy, Mars colonization, AI, knowledge acquisition needs to be disrupted. Something like bio-technology with transplanted chips.
Reading books is a very old way, and it doesn't scale well. Listening to podcast isn't very efficient either. Gamification has not been effective enough so far.
You can also see it in "Matrix", when training in a virtual world with a karate-training program that interacts directly with the brain. As you do when dreaming, but in an interactive way.
In the "Fifth Element", there's also a scene where Milla Jovovich (an advanced being) learn all Human History in a matter of hours/minutes with accelerated reading/watching the Internet.
I'm sure there are many other examples of people putting "accelerated learning" as one feature of the future.
(And I'm already excited to be there.)
Arguing for 5 minutes or 10 minutes can consume your whole day afterwards (in your own mind). When you say something, be it bad or good, words will continue to resonate silently in her mind (and yours).
I also noticed when I'm working at something really important, or when I'm on an epiphany of discovering some glorious truth, I naturally don't mind any argument thrown at me. I'm just focused on that beautiful and exciting thought, and no external input could shake it out of my head. I then realized how futile other person's worries and "sadness" are.
It's relativity: the wider your awareness (and the brighter your thoughts), the more shocking it is to see people "closed minded", prisoner of their own thoughts's limitation, and self-imposed grief.
Oddly, we keep going from one to the other. Sticking with mindfulness is hard.
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