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"If you don't want to do something stupid, you probably don't want to have higher expectations of your abilities than you should..." I disagree with this statem
by chejazi 11y ago
"If you don't want to do something stupid, you probably don't want to have higher expectations of your abilities than you should..." I disagree with this statement. I believe that enlightenment, not stupidity, results from pushing our expectations. I think modesty is more important when it comes to understanding the factors that contributed to an outcome, "stupid" or not.
- Natanael_L 11y agoI guess the difference is how you handle the risk of failure. Dismiss it because you think you won't fail, or prepare for it because you're aware you might?
- marklgr 11y agoDepends on what you call enlightenment. In the zen/taoist sense, it actually results from _dropping_ your expectations, ie. just do your stuff.
- wycx 11y agoI would agree. I would suggest that people who are skilled, and good at what they do did not get to that state without making mistakes that could fall into the categories described in the article as stupid. The trick is, as you say, to determine why said mistakes occured, and importantly to avoid making the same stupid mistakes in the future. The best practitioners of "insert discipline here" are those that have made all the (survivable) mistakes.