HOW TO COMMUNICATE WISDOM
LESS IS BETTER
HOW MUCH TO SHOW(-OFF)?
Erudite: An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.
– Nassim Nicholas Taleb
HOW GOOD A TALKER ONE NEEDS TO BE?
“A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.”
— Buddha (Unverified)
DO ONE NEED TO SHOUT FROM THE ROOFTOP?
If you have something very important to say, whisper it.
– Nassim Nicholas Taleb
BEING THE PATH
“You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself.”
— Buddha (Unverified)
BEING THE GIFT
“Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.”
— Buddha (Unverified)
My teaching, if that is the word you want to use, has no copyright. You are free to reproduce, distribute, interpret, misinterpret, distort, garble, do what you like, even claim authorship, without my consent or the permission of anybody.
– U. G. Krishnamurti, “Mind is a Myth”
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
– Kahlil Gibran
BEING JARGON-FREE
Intellectuals use big words because they’re afraid to actually give their ideas away. (And bad writers use them to pretend they have something worth giving away.)
– Kyle Schroeder
BEING FOOLISH
Wisdom is learning enough to feel stupid/ashamed/scared, then learning enough to get to the other side. Naïveté is not even knowing enough to feel stupid. Wisdom is therefore educated/experienced naïveté.
– Kyle Schroeder
BEING INDEPENDENT
Stupid abstraction: “Successful people do __.” These never work. A quick look around and you see that every person comes at their own success in different ways.
– Kyle Schroeder
Ignoring alternate solutions: we believe that the book that helped us is the book to help everyone. Same with religion. We ignore that everyone else has the same exclusive way of thinking about their own solutions for life.
– Kyle Schroeder
“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
— Buddha (Unverified)
“Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.”
— Buddha (Unverified)
THE OMNIZIENT KNOWLEDGE ENGINE 