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The Chinese wise man once told me, if you go to bed with an itchy ass, you're going to wake up with smelly fingers. | The Chinese wise man once told me, that if you go to bed with an itchy ass, you're going to wake up with smelly fingers. | ||
In other words: there is cause and effect. Things don't magically happen out of nowhere. This is a fundamental [[Mental Model]] to understand. Wisdom comes from understanding cause and effect relationships - where many phenomena fall into the category of simple cause-effect relationships. For complex phenomena, if we see an effect and can't see a cause, we simply do not understand it. | In other words: there is cause and effect. Things don't magically happen out of nowhere. This is a fundamental [[Mental Model]] to understand. Wisdom comes from understanding cause and effect relationships - where many phenomena fall into the category of simple cause-effect relationships and are not overly complex. Insight, experience, or logic uncovers the cause-effect relationships. For complex phenomena, if we see an effect and can't see a cause, we simply do not understand it. It is humility to state that the phenomenon is beyond our understanding. And, attaining the ability to understand complex causes and effects is a divine capacity that is learned by practice. | ||
Revision as of 17:50, 20 February 2023
The Chinese wise man once told me, that if you go to bed with an itchy ass, you're going to wake up with smelly fingers.
In other words: there is cause and effect. Things don't magically happen out of nowhere. This is a fundamental Mental Model to understand. Wisdom comes from understanding cause and effect relationships - where many phenomena fall into the category of simple cause-effect relationships and are not overly complex. Insight, experience, or logic uncovers the cause-effect relationships. For complex phenomena, if we see an effect and can't see a cause, we simply do not understand it. It is humility to state that the phenomenon is beyond our understanding. And, attaining the ability to understand complex causes and effects is a divine capacity that is learned by practice.