Up: [[Thinking]] > [!Orbit] Shunryu Suzuki, Zen master > In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. > [!orbit] Danielle LaPorte in *The First Starters Sessions* > Do not take your expertise for granted. Stay awake. Hunt. Kill your old material. Listen for new information. Tell the story in a different way. Kiss like it's your first kiss. Crush your gimmicks. Make no assumptions. Let the page be white. then and only then, begin. (p. 311) > [!Orbit] Albert Einstein > Information is not knowledge. > [!orbit] Lao Tzu > In the pursuit of knowledge, every day something is added. In the pursuit of enlightenment, every day something is dropped. > [!Orbit] George Leonard in *Mastery* > Even those who will someday overthrow conventional ways of thinking or doing need to know what it is they are overthrowing. > [!Orbit] [[Robertson Davies]] in *Fifth Business*, spoken by the character Dunstable > ...I clung to my notion, ill-defined though it was, that a serious study of an important body of human knowledge, or theory, or belief, if undertaken with a critical but not a cruel mind, would in the end yield some secret, some valuable permanent insight, into the nature of life and the true end of man. (p. 162) > [!Orbit] Caroline Cala Donofrio in *Between a Rock and a Card Place* Substack > Wisdom dwells in the space between outward observation and inner reflection — each is empty without the other. > [!Orbit] Caroline Cala Donofrio in *Between a Rock and a Card Place* Substack > Learning happens as we move through the world. Knowing happens within us. > [!Orbit] T.H. White in *The Once and Future King* > The best thing for being sad’, replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, ‘is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn. > [!Orbit] [[Michel de Montaigne]] > It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it. > [!Orbit] Adam Grant in *Granted* newsletter, Oct. 13, 2024 > The hallmark of expertise is no longer how much you know. It's how well you synthesize. Information scarcity rewarded knowledge acquisition. Information abundance requires pattern recognition. It's not enough to connect facts. The future belongs to those who connect dots. > [!Orbit] Richard Feynman > Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible. > [!Orbit] Wolfgang Pauli > I don’t mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.