Cal Newport

And then we go seeking that.

And then we want to simplify everything in the world to you're just terrible and this person is perfect and this idea makes the most sense.

And if you disagree with this idea, it's because, like, you want to eat children.

And, you know, it just becomes, it's a different under, this is what I think we get

wrong it's not just like we're we're uh we don't have the right information we've changed what our notion of truth is because we're not exposed to the complexity of truths when you read a not only a scholar like a smart case for it but then you read the arguments that they confronted and then you read someone else that's arguing against their point and you're like oh okay i've i've seen the clash of like minds and now in that clash

Like, I kind of see what's going on here.

Like, yeah, the truth really leans this way.

And I feel really real conviction in that because I've seen, like, the best minds come at this from either side.

And I really understand.

And it's not cut and dry.

But ultimately, like, this is the right thing to do.

That was, like, a very familiar thing to people and leaders, like, in times past where you lose it if you're exposed to these low-resolution things.

copies, these low-resolution simulacrums, these easy-to-digest pre-chewed versions of argumentation and understanding.

It just changes the way your brain thinks about what true even means.

Oh, God.

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