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Highlights tagged "learning"

The lesson of history is that ignorance and superstition are things that can rise up, inside almost anyone, at any moment. And what starts as a doubt in a mind can swiftly become an act in the world.
“You must never feel badly about making mistakes,” explained Reason quietly, “as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.”
When you’re really learning, you’ll feel stupid and vulnerable — like a hermit crab between shells.
—Derek Sivers, How to Live. Highlighted