People often misjudge their abilities. Those with less than average abilities overestimate their true abilities. Those with higher don’t realize how much higher. Stupid people are too stupid to know how stupid they are. Some smart people wrongly assume that most others can do what they can.
We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Kahneman
Imagine the horror with which darkness, rain, and wind, fill persons who have lost their way in the night; and who, consequently, have not the pleasant prospect of warm fires, dry cloaths, and other refreshments, to support their minds in struggling with the inclemencies of the weather.
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!
Imagine first that the present is past, and second, that the past may yet be changed & amended.
Logotherapy by Victor Frankl
Opposite elements working in harmony enable perfect decision making: Calculation & evaluation, patience & opportunism, intuition & analysis, style & objectivity, management & vision, strategy & tactics, planning & reaction. Balance these forces and avoid the comfort zone. ~G.Kasparov
When you look at an object, you see one side of it at a time; the nature of vision. When you think about something, you think about it in one context at a time; the nature of thought.
Context determines what your mind thinks just as viewing-angle determines what your eye sees.
The Rule of 3 is a writing principle that suggests that a trio of entities such as events or characters is more
Three entities combines both brevity and rhythm with having the smallest amount of information to create a pattern.
The rule has been confirmed by anthropological experts as an archetypal principle that works on three levels:
We can sell millions of humanoids, maybe billions, if we can get humanoids to do the work that humans do not want to do. The market is massive.
Brett Alcock, CEO of Figure AI
High above the flying scud and dark-rolling clouds, there floated a little isle of sunlight, from which beamed forth an angel’s face; and this bright face shed a distinct spot of radiance upon the ship’s tossed deck.
“Ah, noble ship,” the angel seemed to say, “beat on, beat on, thou noble ship, and bear a hardy helm; for lo! the sun is breaking through; the clouds are rolling off – serenest azure is at hand.”
Moby Dick by Herman Melville