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The critical point here is he's saying it because he's read it in a book, and it rang true. That means he had good upbringing or just good life intuition to re
by alexashka 9y ago
The critical point here is he's saying it because he's read it in a book, and it rang true.
That means he had good upbringing or just good life intuition to recognize that to be a good idea.
Wisdom is knowing in your bones, that something's true. Thompson's merely trying to convey what others have conveyed to him, coupled with some intuition.
Which's my entire point - don't bother listening to people regurgitating something they read in a book, go find folks who've lived it. They tend to be older :)
- aaachilless 9y agoSo if a 50-year-old wiseman writes a book, a 20-year-old reads it and copies its ideas into a letter for a friend in need of some wisdown, and I read the letter 60 years later, what do I do? To help with the prescription: I'm in my mid-twenties and, as you now understand, quite a simpleton.
- chillacy 9y agoI'd like to throw in that Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is quite a famous staple of stoic reading, but it's mainly a compilation of lessons from other great stoic teachers that resonated with him.