📓My Favorite Book Passage & Best Content of the Week 👉
Hey friend!
I hope you had a great week!
I have collected my favorite book passage and the best content I have consumed last week! Hope you find it valuable too!
But before… some updates about the content and the Newsletter…
✅ Updates
From now on, my plan is to send this kind of newsletter (the curation of an insightful book passage and the best content I’ve consumed on the week) *every* Friday, and then *some* Mondays I will send the typical newsletter that includes my Notes and Reflections used for my latest YouTube Video!
This way, I can keep the content a bit more organized, and also deliver the content to you in a more consistent basis! So you can digest everything more easily :)
TLDR…
Every Friday → This Newsletter (Curation of a Book Passage and Content)
Some Mondays → My typical Newsletter with my Notes & Reflections used for my latest YouTube Video.
📚 Favorite Book Passage
This Passage is from the book "The Black Swan", by Nassim Taleb
(About our tendency to learn the precise/ factual instead of the meta/abstract)“
The problem lies in the structure of our minds: we don’t learn rules, just facts, and only facts. Metarules (such as the rule that we have a tendency to not learn rules) we don’t seem to be good at getting. We scorn the abstract; we scorn it with passion…
What are our minds made for? It looks as if we have the wrong user’s manual. Our minds do not seem made to think and introspect; if they were, things would be easier for us today, but then we would not be here today and I would not have been here to talk about it—my counterfactual, introspective, and hard-thinking ancestor would have been eaten by a lion while his nonthinking but faster-reacting cousin would have run for cover. Consider that thinking is time-consuming and generally a great waste of energy, that our predecessors spent more than a hundred million years as nonthinking mammals and that in the blip in our history during which we have used our brain we have used it on subjects too peripheral to matter. Evidence shows that we do much less thinking than we believe we do— except, of course, when we think about it.
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Picking Nuggets Note:
I think this idea that Nassim exposes matches very well with the idea of Kapil Gupta -- Everyone is seeking the tangible step-by-step process and practical tips to achieve their goals (they seek the "hacks" and the fast way). And while this is useful (specially when you are just starting out in a particular journey -- i.e. You want to become a great writer but you have no idea where to start or what to do), it is not going to make us different from the rest of people that also pursue that list of steps and most importantly, it is superficial in nature -- it lacks the depth / substance / foundational aspect. And since we humans need a purpose and existential reason, I think this is the most important part!
"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how" - Friedrich Nietzsche
Maybe that's why I'm enjoying the content of a new Creator I discovered recently: Dan Koe. Who embraces the abstract and the "meta aspect" of of being a Creator in today's world.
More quotes on this...
“If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes thinking about solutions" - Albert Einstein
"Most people would rather die than think and many of them do!" - Bertrand Russell
💎 Best Content
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Until next time,
Julio xx