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> Yes, people tend to adopt a personal narrative that maximizes their own moral status Exactly, that's what I'm saying about rationalizing. The only thing thos
by johnwheeler 5y ago
> Yes, people tend to adopt a personal narrative that maximizes their own moral status
Exactly, that's what I'm saying about rationalizing. The only thing those who've yet to succeed lack is the vantage point of the successful. So I'd argue the successful are operating with an information advantage.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> The only thing those who've yet to succeed lack is the vantage point of the successful. No, that's a pre-Enlightment (or maybe postmodernist, it can be hard to tell the difference at times) attitude. What both most who have succeeded and most who have not succeeded lack who don’t actively seek it out is the perspective of structured, broad information gathering, analysis, and hypothesis testing beyond self-justifying rationalization of personal experience. But no one needs to lack that, because plenty of that has been done, so there is no need to rely on duelling self-justifying constructed narratives to understand the world.
- johnwheeler 5y agotouché