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by waru 16y ago
Yea, people who insist that everything should be thought out rationally do seem pretty insane, since no one, no matter how rational, could ever be like that all the time, and it would actually limit them a lot. It feels empowering to hear f
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by waru 16y ago
Einstein has some great quotes about intuition and creativity. I also like "Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." His quotes are basically the proof of the pudding that rationality needs intuition, since he'
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by waru 16y ago
The only thing is that, for me, rationalizing the intuition before I act on it can waste time and the opportunity, and kill inspiration. So I think it's important to act first sometimes (then go back and understand rationally later, as one
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by waru 16y ago
Hm, good point. What about general life decisions? It's hard to say if you have enough "experience" in life to have good intuition about it.
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by waru 16y ago
That's true about "Be more rational." (ie "Your idea is stupid; quit being adventurous."). That's why I hesitate to say "rational optimist," because rational as an adjective has such skeptical, pessimistic connotations. Some "skeptics" driv
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by waru 16y ago
Hm, well, this thread doesn't appear on the "ask" section of HN, only in "new", so I think I may have missed something if there's a way to control that. Rationality can definitely lead to pessimism if you're not careful, but I think most pe
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Ask HN: Do you think intuition is as valuable as rational thinking?
51 points by waru 16y ago|77 comments
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by waru 16y ago
I have tried Judo, Aikido, Kendo, and Muay Thai, and done Karate and Tae Kwon Do extensively. Personally, I'm doing it for the physical training and the sense of accomplishment more than practical fighting abilities, since I don't plan on g
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by waru 16y ago
What if you tell them one specific thing to work on (whatever their major downfall was), and then be vague about the rest? Then, even if they insist that that one problem area was actually good, you can point to the part that vaguely says s
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by waru 16y ago
I'm so old-fashioned as to play Super Nintendo RPGs! I've played all the famous and popular ones like Final Fantasy 3 & 6, Chrono Trigger, and Breath of Fire, etc, so for the past few years I've been discovering all the little-known hid
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by waru 16y ago
I play good old-fashioned one-player Japanese RPGs. I just can't get into stressful fast-paced calculations/button-mashing, or extremely complicated long-term planning of minute details (no offense to games that can be described as that, it
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by waru 16y ago
I guess if you're the kind of person who thinks that art can be a worthwhile and meaningful part of someone's life (and I do), and that games can be art (which hopefully most people recognize by now), then they can be seen as changing peopl
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by waru 16y ago
I'm hoping to get funding to start a game development start-up, and I was wondering the same thing. I think there's plenty of room for indie game development. You can't compete with huge companies in terms of making a game that costs millio
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by waru 16y ago
Meditating regularly improves my quality of life and ability to think clearly by about 100%. Sometimes I stop doing it for awhile and forget how much better it is, but then I get back into it and realize, "Woa, this just makes life easier.