[HN Gopher] To Become Wise, Do Less
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To Become Wise, Do Less
Author : maverickJ
Score : 27 points
Date : 2022-08-07 11:29 UTC (11 hours ago)
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| IceDane wrote:
| I gotta say, articles(to use that term loosely) like this are
| really starting to grind my gears.
|
| There are so many of them. Every person and their dog is trying
| to become some sort of popular culture icon by sharing with us
| their incredibly profound inner dialogue. They all have advice
| for how to live our lives, and none of them can agree. If you
| take the sum of their advice, you have to do everything at once.
|
| Gotta grind for that success. But don't grind too much. Also,
| remember to meditate. Disconnect from the internet. But don't
| become too disconnected, because you have to stay up to date on
| current events, because otherwise you can't keep up with the
| twittersphere. Which you should avoid, because it's toxic, by the
| way. But not too much, because important people say important
| things there!
|
| This article is particularly bad. It's only a few paragraphs, and
| it still manages to be so self-contradictory that if you actually
| read it through, you're literally no wiser in the end, because
| the advice boils down to "Sometimes you need to relax, but you
| can't relax all the time." Gee, thanks. Pretty ironic,
| considering the subject of this article.
| edmundsauto wrote:
| And so much of it is rehashed ancient philosophy, such as
| "moderation in all things". So much of is basically the Tao Te
| Ching, or astrology.
|
| That is to say, it's not true! but over millennia, humans have
| found it to be useful. Try not to get annoyed by writing that
| isn't meant for you (assuming you don't get any value out of
| it, it's a tautology that you are not the intended audience.)
| mms__ wrote:
| > They all have advice for how to live our lives, and none of
| them can agree. If you take the sum of their advice, you have
| to do everything at once
|
| Well yeah, different people have different views of how to
| accomplish stuff. You should have to reason a bit about what
| you read to figure out your own approach
| nudgeee wrote:
| Agree, after years and years of being inundated with self-
| help messages, platitudes, and coming-of-age teachings, I
| find most of it comes from a good place -- however the
| messages are so context specific that it probably doesn't
| apply to you in your current juncture in life right now.
|
| I find what is crucial when it comes to taking advice, is
| figuring out when advice makes sense to you -- and try to
| synthesize it as food for thought within your world view (or
| not).
| lysergia wrote:
| I think the gist of the article is: Sometimes (not always) the
| winning move is not to play. I have experienced this phenomenon
| before where my best ideas are had in the shower, or a software
| bug is resolved after going for a walk in nature. Another way
| of putting this is: avoid the target to hit it.
| tapvt wrote:
| I mostly agree with you, but I did find some value in the
| quotation (paraphrased, because I've closed the article) "Focus
| on doing the right things rather than doing things right."
| [deleted]
| lajisam wrote:
| Agree, far too many of them here at HN.
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