Comment on How do I make myself smarter?
cameron_vale@lemm.ee 11 months agoThis assumes that ideas have a central significance. I suspect that this is an illusion of perspective.
If perspective is illusory, then learning more subjective perspectives will help you see commonalities and find additional ways to address them.
You may not believe that the writer has valid perspectives, but you will learn more about how perspectives are presented.
I don’t mean that the writer might have invalid perspectives, I mean that the assertion that ideas have a central importance is itself an error of perspective. Thinking might not matter as much as we think it does.
kakes@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Step two: Try not to be so pretentious and closed-minded.
Being “smart” comes from the ability to see the world from other perspectives. Perspective is the gift books give us, and the reason you’ll get “smarter” from reading them. You gain nothing from taking the easy route and writing these sorts of things off as “beneath you.”
cameron_vale@lemm.ee 11 months ago
right back at you
kakes@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
If you’re truly looking for some grand “Truth” of the world, the only people that can provide that to you are religions and con-men. So my honest advice in that case would be to go to your choice of religious gathering and talk to the people there.
cameron_vale@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Not looking for truth so much as a method for getting truth. Even the finest logic is only as good as its assumptions. And even the finest ideas are just ideas.