I was looking up acting courses, and came across a Voice Over Acting course whose curriculum promised “ethical voice over acting.” I presume this alludes to stealing the voice of a member of an underprivileged group, or something. Having “ethical” mentioned in your agenda is subject to the same heuristic…

A person considers an idea and decides it is reasonable. Like a new and hopeful President signed into office, the idea pushes and exhorts, and gets little done. Most of you exists subconsciously, you are not aware of this part of yourself, and absent external restraints or internal conflicts this…

Both emotional intelligence and general intelligence are real, though we only understand them partially. We don’t need psychological studies to verify their reality — we just need to remember what kinds of conceptual work they’ve not yet been certified to perform. We misunderstand these concepts so badly because our egos…

Our thoughts arrive unbidden. It can be no other way — thoughts happen to You.

It sounds to itself what it receives.

On originality, and emulating greatness — Imitation is the seed capital for an original vision. Ideas have people and vice versa. Why not allow a handed-down notion to have you and multiply. “Knowledge once instantiated in a physical system tends to remain so.” In humans, through the awe of the beholder. Then how does the artist…

Why we do things better when we don’t involve ourselves — A lack of X is really a lack of self-understanding. Substitute in contentment, happiness, adventure… or self-worth. Self-understanding produces a steady state within a person. Nothing in particular needs to happen. Since he knows who he is, he does not need the world to tell him. …

Boredom is our response to that which has nothing to teach us. Knowledge about what, geography? About the historical ramifications of the Treaty of Westphalia? No. Knowledge about ourselves. Knowledge as in Understanding, rather than information. One can think of ‘the journey is the destination’ as the pleasurable distractions given…

How self-examination creates the changes reading can’t — Q: Should I devote myself to reading books? A: You can if you want. But it’s unlikely to produce the effect you hope for. Q: Certain people are always talking about the benefits of reading ‘great books.’ Something about the way they talk doesn’t sit easily with me. A: I…