Ed Latimore@EdLatimore
Everyone wants to be right
No one wants to learn
Navalism@NavalismHQ
"Would you still be interested in doing something,
If you couldn't tell anyone about it?"
@naval
“We have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us. The labyrinth is thoroughly known—we have only to follow the thread of the hero path...”—Joesph Cambell, 1986
You are on a hero’s path and you are not alone.
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."
- H. L. Mencken
"We accept the voice in our head as the source of all truth. But all of it is malleable, and every day is new. Memory and identity are burdens from the past preventing us from living freely in the present."
An Asian man was murdered on camera and CNN won't say that because the murderers don't fit the narrative
"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
- Steve Jobs
"the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable. "
- Michael Crichton
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Stop complaining about human nature and use it to your advantage.
There is no way for a person to mature without first being, by definition, immature.
Immature people tend to behave in a way that will appall mature people, but part of maturity is understanding this.
The three stages of #conservatism:
1) believe what the base believes
2) go to University, learn a few alternative facts, and question everything you were taught
3) realize the base was right about everything
Not all conservatives have the stamina to reach Stage 3.
"Real happiness only comes as a side-effect of peace. Most of it is going to come from acceptance, not from changing your external environment."
