3/ It has a strange effect: it's easier to abstract a lesson from another field than it is to simply practice something
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4/ This is where it becomes a constraint: I HAVE to understand the principle by which smthg operates. I can't just experiment empirically
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5/ I find it easy to engage in difficult activities that operate by familiar principles
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6/ Yet the simplest of activities feel impossible if I'm not familiar w/ the principles by which they operate
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7/ This makes my learning speed very weird to others. I'll quickly grasp extremely difficult concepts while struggling with simple ones
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8/ It also requires very specific behavior change strategies: I must appeal to my better nature on the basis of principles
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9/ For ex: scalability, leverage, efficiency, complementarity, synergy, strength against weakness, integration, decentralization...
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10/ Somehow at some point I started thinking of these abstract concepts as first order realities, more real in fact than the physical world
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12/ This was my gateway to Buddhism: the world as momentary manifestations of universal forces, making attachment superfluous
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13/ my GF just commented on this tweetstorm: "it's true, but convoluted." Exactly my point
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reading literary fiction is a good antidote to this tendency
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fiction has helped me by letting me peer into others' self-talk, which is usually about practical concerns & not abstract
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