Wisdom Builder
Quick Hits
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THINK WELL.
Quick Hits
10 random key ideas.
1.
Do not confuse what is widely repeated with what is well tested. Public belief deserves attention, but public truth deserves your higher confidence.
2.
Quote:
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
- 1755.
Meaning:
Five Thought Tools < TST Framework < Critical Thinking
3.
From History: 1440
Publishing, whether the printing press or digital, transforms your ideas from private claims into public debate.
4.
Article summary:
Ever wonder why the anti-vaxxer crowd sounds so loud? It’s not because they’re the majority — it’s because outrage echoes.
5.
Quote:
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr..
- 1858.
Meaning:
Sound thinking begins by recognizing that your initial baseline was chosen for you, not by you. Your birth givens are not your destiny.
6.
From History: 1000 CE
For thousands of years, writing had very little grammar. Grammar helps, and you should respect grammar, but serve the reader first.
7.
Philosophy seeks clarity about reality, knowledge, and life. Spirituality seeks meaning, connection, and orientation within reality.
8.
Quote:
- David Hume.
- 1748.
From History:
Meaning:
Your confidence in an idea, whether scientific or spiritual, should rise with support, not desire.
9.
From History: The Idea of the Unknowable Dao
If you embrace that absolute truth exists only in objective reality, then our human claims can remain provisional and always open to refinement, correction, and falsification.
10.
Karma and cause and effect explore causation versus correlation.
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