It's not easy
Learning to think comprehensively can be a difficult process.
It requires that we rethink everything we know, and that can be very troubling.
We have to be willing to give up hard-won knowledge
Jim Applegate
Silver bullets
It’s comforting to think we might find solutions that somehow cut through all the complexity and solve long-standing, intractable problems, but silver bullets (in the metaphorical sense) don’t actually exist.
Matching reality
In talking about your personal universe, I often say that it needs to be
accurate and match reality as best it can.
The thing is, reality is not something we can really grasp
Unprecedented
I’ve been hearing this word a lot.
There’s nothing inherently bad in being unprecedented. You can have
unprecedented success. But it seems like it’s mostly used to describe something
negative.
Birthdays
When I was a kid, I would get a paper calendar every year, usually at
Christmas. It was a yearly ritual that I would then go through my old calendar
and transfer birthdays