<story><title>To Become Wise, Do Less</title><url>https://leveragethoughts.substack.com/p/to-become-wise-do-less</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drannex</author><text>To become wise, do everything, fuck up on most of it, and know what works and doesn&amp;#x27;t by direct experience.&lt;p&gt;I am a minimalist (Essentialist) by choice, but a maximalist regarding knowledge and experience. Try and do everything you can, that way you know what does and doesn&amp;#x27;t work. Done. Anything else is overly reductive. You can&amp;#x27;t know how to do anything if you do or experience close to nothing.&lt;p&gt;Leisure is good, I am a ferverent advocate of Veblen philosophy, but if you want to be wise use your leisure to do the maximum you can and want to do with that time. Leisure is different for everyone, reading, gaming, sitting on the beach, making art, but if you want to be &amp;#x2F;wise&amp;#x2F; with your leisure you have to do everything you want to do! Focus a lot, or focus a little, you just have to do everything possible to fuck up as much as possible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lanstin</author><text>If you are too busy, you will not think of the optimal solution to your intellectual problem.&lt;p&gt;I don’t know about other people, but I often have the experience of banging away at some problem for a few hours, then going away and not thinking about it for a while then a simple resolution pops into my mind without much effort.&lt;p&gt;Continuing to push hard when you aren’t getting any where on an intellectual puzzle isn’t always the best approach.&lt;p&gt;And there are some fields of inquiry where deep concentration and deep knowledge is useful. For instance, rather than recreating all the knowledge by your own trial and error you can read and then make truly novel mistakes.</text></comment>
<story><title>To Become Wise, Do Less</title><url>https://leveragethoughts.substack.com/p/to-become-wise-do-less</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drannex</author><text>To become wise, do everything, fuck up on most of it, and know what works and doesn&amp;#x27;t by direct experience.&lt;p&gt;I am a minimalist (Essentialist) by choice, but a maximalist regarding knowledge and experience. Try and do everything you can, that way you know what does and doesn&amp;#x27;t work. Done. Anything else is overly reductive. You can&amp;#x27;t know how to do anything if you do or experience close to nothing.&lt;p&gt;Leisure is good, I am a ferverent advocate of Veblen philosophy, but if you want to be wise use your leisure to do the maximum you can and want to do with that time. Leisure is different for everyone, reading, gaming, sitting on the beach, making art, but if you want to be &amp;#x2F;wise&amp;#x2F; with your leisure you have to do everything you want to do! Focus a lot, or focus a little, you just have to do everything possible to fuck up as much as possible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sifar</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt; Try and do everything you can&lt;p&gt;Ars longa, vita brevis [1]&lt;p&gt;While I agree that experience by doing is the way to learn, the thing is we have finite resources and time while the things which we want to do are infinite. Which means when you choose to do something you are choosing not to do something else - think of it as an opportunity cost.&lt;p&gt;And merely doing without reflection is also not useful - and one can also reflect on the deeds of others too so that one can learn without a direct harm to ourselves.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Ars_longa%2C_vita_brevis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Ars_longa%2C_vita_brevis&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>