Archive for the ‘Lessons’ Category

The Future at Different Ranges: It Always is Abstract

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

Whether one considers the immediate future, the future of a few hours, of a few days or of one’s entire lifespan, one does so abstractly. Although the actions one takes are concretely real and the end result would be concretely real, one’s consideration of the future while acting in the present is abstract.

Aside: The term “career planning” is an attempt to plan one’s future using terms that are only applicable to the past: it represents the mistake of attempting to grasp the future perceptually. The future can only be grasped abstractly.

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Tags: future, planning, ball-handler, career planning, action, abstract, concrete, range, time, learning, automatization

Purpose and Career

Sunday, September 27th, 2009

This lesson addresses the following:

  • what is meant by a person’s purpose in life?
  • when and how is it acquired and developed by some?
  • how does it relate to career?

This lesson was prompted by a question tweeted recently by NixiePixel: Just curious.. Should I know what to do with my life at 22? I don’t have a clue sometimes..

This lesson also has word-origin request for two words, purpose and career, for HotForWords.

And this lesson has an Easter Egg involving strippers!

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Tags: purpose, career, etymology, word-origin, growth, development, Easter Egg

WILIS 1.2: Two Prerequisites for Learning

Saturday, September 19th, 2009

This is the first in an occasional series “What I Learned In School (WILIS)”. This lesson presents two prerequisites for learning which explain why some people can learn a subject they are interested in by understanding, but end up having to memorize a subject they are not interested in.

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Tags: understanding memorization memory what I learned in school wilis learning prerequisite

WILIS 1.1: Why Understanding vs Memorization?

Saturday, September 12th, 2009

This is the first in an occasional series “What I Learned In School (WILIS)”. This lesson concerns the question of why some people can learn a subject they are interested in by understanding, but end up having to memorize a subject they are not interested in.

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Tags: understanding memorization memory what I learned in school wilis learning

A Fumble at a Date – Ayn Rand’s Dating Advice; Part 2: The Answer

Saturday, September 5th, 2009

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A Fumble at a Date – Ayn Rand’s Dating Advice; Part 1: The Question

Saturday, August 29th, 2009

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Man’s Deepest Need and the Means for his Deepest Enjoyment

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

The previous lesson was about the fundamental fact that there is a world of concretes and there is you, you who can grasp it and deal with it. An immediate consequence of this fact is that the sustained, purposeful, active engagement of his mind to grasp and manipulate reality to meet his goals is man’s deepest need and is the means for his deepest enjoyment.

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Supplementary Material: The “Tray of Stones” and “Gathering Pot” (or “Coming Into Shape”) scenes from Kim (starring Errol Flynn).

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The Axioms and Marilyn Monroe on Dating

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

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(At some points in this video, my eyes go up because I think I was glancing at the timer on the camera — do not like that and will avoid it in the future.)

GoForThisWorld — A Preview

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

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