A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.
He knows his time is running out.
So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.
He died 5 months later.
This is that lecture.
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@Seraphinaf5 71.. when the person entered a room full of 100 people , the room now have 101 people. 40 left the room making it 61 , and 10 enter making it 71.
Two people are lost in a desert. The philosopher studies the mirage of water and calls it an optical truth. The lover runs to it and calls it destiny. Neither gets a drink.
“If someone I like is in the Epstein files, it was just an innocent email exchange that proves nothing, but if someone I dislike is in the files, this is indisputable proof that they need to be locked up.”
We have become too articulate about our suffering & too inarticulate about our strength. The more elegantly we describe our wounds, the harder it becomes to leave them behind. When a struggle becomes part of your identity, overcoming it feels like a betrayal of who you are.
The most important quality for a smart person is courage because without it their intellect will be leveraged to rationalize their fears and concoct the most convincing excuses not to act.
When you view the world through an ideology, you seek information not to better understand the world, but to better justify what you already believe.
The way to see the world objectively is to view it without expectation; to see without looking for something.
Lessons learned are quickly forgotten unless they were learned in terror, or sorrow, or shame. Wisdom can always be rented for free, but it must be purchased with pain.