Interview – Author Cal Newport on how you can become an expert and why you should *not* follow your passion by Eric Barker Barking Up The Wrong Tree

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Karen Armstrong on Silence “Apophatic or ‘speechless’ theology is often called ‘negative’, because it helps us to realise that when we encounter transcendence we have reached the end of what words can do. It is a habit of mind that we have lost sight of in our talkative age of information, and this has made […]

Western Thought For Footmen And Aspiring Legionnaires by Ta-Nehisi Coates Ta-Nehisi Coates : The Atlantic

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Patton Oswalt’s Star Wars Filibuster – Parks and Recreation nbcParksandRec

DISFLUENCY | Edge.org "We’ve shown that disfluency leads you to think more deeply, as I mentioned earlier, that it forms a cognitive roadblock, and then you think more deeply, and you work through the information more comprehensively." Disfluency == force System 2.

The Elusive “Good War” by Ta-Nehisi Coates Ta-Nehisi Coates : The Atlantic

NICK IDs Breakdown Plenty :: B Side

And Now, Deep Thoughts About ‘Deep Thoughts’ ‘Thanks in part to my students, I realized that the conversationality, concise humor, ludicrous situations and faux-sincere profundity of the “Deep Thoughts” presage rhetorical turns that now appear often in contemporary poetry. What I regarded as merely hilarious but disposable nuggets were actually a prescient literary innovation.’