some things seem weird to state out loud bc it's not exactly a new thing, and surely everyone knows it. but here goes:
we have access to the most powerful media + information management tools in human history.
this gives us leverage & power that our predecessors did not have
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a staggering amount of our assumptions about what is possible is informed not by first principles thinking, but by our intuitions, which are shaped by history
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you can literally talk to people from all over the world for effectively free. this is a very recent power, and only a very tiny percentage of people are using it skillfully or strategically. you could build relationships with people from almost every major city on the planet
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"ok but how do you build relationships" that's a solved problem, go do the reading. george washington knew how to do it and wrote about it extensively. I have a book about it too. but you can just google it yourself. you can google and learn anything.
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George Washington:
1. Respect others
13. If your friend has lice, remove it privately
38. When visiting the sick, don’t play physician
41. “Undertake not to teach your equal in the art himself professes”
46. Take all admonition thankfully
49. Use no reproachful language
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I do worry about becoming a broken clock that repeats myself too much, but it seems like there are new people showing up and hearing these things for the first time each time. and I feel like these *are* important talking points. I need to find a creative solution to this 🤔
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Yeah. There is also some element of timing and resonance, esp. when it's stuff being shared on Twitter.
I've 'learned' things dozens of times without having them stick, and then absorbed them instantly after some critically timed repeat exposure.
Prior exposures matter, too.
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If something isn't that important to me at the moment, I might read out of curiosity, think "huh, that's neat," and forget right away.
If it's currently a Thing in my life, it will instead be "damn, why didn't I remember this from before?"
I'm assuming this is fairly normal.