“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.” — Bruce Lee

the answers are always less valuable than the questions.

Since new information is now generated more and more rapidly, it takes less time for said information to lose its value.

Knowledge is cumulative. Intelligence is selective. It’s a matter of efficiency versus effectiveness.

Determining what to know at any time will matter more than the hard facts you’ll end up knowing.

Idea synthesis, rapid learning, and adaptability: three skills that multipotentialites are very adept at and three skills they might lose if pressured to narrow their focus. As a society, we have a vested interest in encouraging multipotentialites to be themselves. We have a lot of complex, multidimensional problems in the world right now, and we need creative, out-of-the-box thinkers to tackle them.

You learn how to learn by continuously challenging yourself to grasp concepts of a broad variety. This ironically then allows you to specialize in something else faster if you so choose. This is an incredibly valuable advantage.

You valued learning and you taught me to value it. Once I learned to value it, the rest came without trouble.

In order to build true intelligence, we first have to let go of what we know.

Anytime you read something with the mindset that you are there to extract what is right and what is wrong, you are by default limiting how much you can get out of a particular piece of writing. You’re boxing an experience that has many dimensions into just two.

learning really is: a state of mind.

If your mind is always open, you’re always learning. And if it’s closed, nothing has a real chance of sinking in.

The reason the wise man can learn from even the most foolish question is that he never assigns that label in the first place.

If we focus only on the activity of learning, we miss the most important part: Unless we’re willing to change our perspective, we won’t grasp a thing.

The longer we can hold opposing ideas in our heads without rejecting them, the more granular the picture that ultimately forms.

“Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions,” replied the Zen teacher. “If you do not first empty your cup, how can you taste my cup of tea?”