Tentu tidak semua bisa (dan baik) diungkap saat ini juga, tapi mengingkari boleh munculnya reaksi-reaksi tadi —apalagi sampai menjadikannya bahan tertawaan — juga tidak pas. Justru pada lapisan tipis inilah mestinya muncul perbedaan yang telah dirintis selama puluhan tahun.
Padahal yang terutama menjadi pokok pertanyaan, keterkejutan, kekhawatiran, dan - mungkin - kekecewaan bukanlah soal kompetensi. Melainkan atas urgensi sebesar apa (yang tidak semua orang punya akses untuk mengetahuinya) sampai-sampai mengambil risiko sebesar itu.
Public service announcement for managers and coaches: you can't judge effort by results.
Inconsistent performance doesn't mean people aren't trying their best. It often means they're doing their best in the face of turbulence.
In humans, variability is a feature, not a bug.
I'd like say something about my research on human intelligence:
I've found that while IQ is very predictive of rate of learning new and complex information, IQ within the normal range does not necessarily *preclude* the capacity to learn and to create.
Perhaps more importantly, I've found that intellectual curiosity matters much more than IQ for long-term creative achievement, and that conscientiousness can help everyone persevere despite learning setbacks to get better at whatever someone is attempting to learn.
My thoughts on IQ are nuanced in that I have published papers showing that IQ does predict speed of on-the-spot reasoning for things that make strong demands on working memory, but I also like to emphasize to people that depth of reflection, curiosity about learning new things, thinking divergently, and having the willpower to stick with learning is what fills in a full existence and are all attributes that should be rewarded in schools and in the workplace.
We certainly don't have 100% free will because each of us is part of a causal chain much bigger than ourselves.
But to say we have 0% free will also seems unlikely. We can put in the conscious work to shift the probabilities and stack the odds as much in our favor as we can, and I believe there are individual differences in the capacity to influence our odds based on various cognitive, personality, and environmental factors.
But it is freeing knowing that ultimately it's out of our hands. While it's unlikely that the universe has a conscious plan, it's kinda freeing to know that there is a causal chain of nature that transcends (and includes) each of us, and which we get the privilege of consciously witnessing throughout our miraculous lives.
Wisdom doesn’t come from experience. It comes from reflecting on experience.
Between ages 25 and 75, the correlation between age and wisdom is zero.
Gaining insight and perspective is not about the number of years you've lived. It's about the number of lessons you've learned.
If you’re waking up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom (“washroom” if you’re Canadian) try sipping, not gulping your last beverage of the day. The speed that you ingest fluid, and not just the total amount, helps dictate the urination response. #fewerwakeups
Change is change. Growth is growth. Sometimes change indicates growth, but sometimes it doesn't. Personal growth is easy to measure. But comparing generations? It's way too hard. What was effective back then can be inadequate today. And vice versa.
This a testament that rich people can buy their basic needs in bulk. Which is a lot cheaper than buying it individually.
Context: one reason that rich people getting richer.
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I was addicted to porn for 9 years.
When I say porn ruins young men's lives, I speak from experience.
This is what it did to my life:
(Porn addict physiognomy vs sober chad physiognomy, 4-year difference)