- A Project of One’s Own
- Have a project you want to work on and “own”. This has more value than projects you are told to do.
- Your own projects are those you do voluntarily and which you work on yourself actively without being bogged down by bureaucracy.
- Work-life balance is a misnomer. Work on something you want to take your life over.
- Retain the child-like confidence to simply play around and explore.
- Heresy
- We live in an age where heresy still exists.. Heresy:
- Takes priority over veracity
- Outweighs everything else that the speaker has done.
- Implicitly shuts down any further argument from the heretic.
- It is an opinion whose expression is treated like a crime.
- Even if a statement is x-ist, it is fallacious to think that it is true or false.
- Heresy is rampant due to the aggressively conventional mobbing together under one ideology—one with arbitrary rules that imply superiority.
- Is There Such a Thing as Good Taste?
- Yes, there is such a thing as good taste otherwise there is no such thing as a good artist.
- The “goodness” of an art should be evaluated in a vacuum based on how it evokes a response from its audience.
- The Four Quadrants of Conformism
- People can be passive or aggressive; conventional or independent-minded. Most are passively conventional minded.
- Much of this stance towards conformism is based on ones’ personality.
- Aggressive Conventional mindedness only serves to cause stagnation within society.
- Society needs to be reminded of bad ideas from the independent-minded.
- The Lesson to Unlearn
- Learning to get good grades is the antithesis of actual learning.
- The vast majority prioritize good grades because of how society has placed value on them.
- School indirectly teaches you to miss the obvious and overthink because learning in school requires more mental gymnastics than actual learning.
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