MINUTES of a MONDAY #93
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BRAIN FOOD > Eating Black Beetles
“Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted. He did not do so because he thought he knew. Thinking that you know when in fact you don’t is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone. I believe myself that hedgehogs eat black beetles, because I have been told that they do; but if I were writing a book on the habits of hedgehogs, I should not commit myself until I had seen one enjoying this unappetizing diet. Aristotle, however, was less cautious. Ancient and medieval authors knew all about unicorns and salamanders; not one of them thought it necessary to avoid dogmatic statements about them because he had never seen one of them.
Many matters, however, are less easily brought to the test of experience. If, like most of mankind, you have passionate convictions on many such matters, there are ways in which you can make yourself aware of your own bias.”
Extract from the book: The Basic Writngs of Bertrand Russell by Betrand Russell
SOUL FOOD
“You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you … If words control you that means everyone else can control you.”
Warren Buffett
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I cannot get enough Tyler Pischer’s Trump:
APPENDIX
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”
30th President of the United States, Calvin Coolidge
A.O.B
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