personal-growth

Richard Ngo ✓ @RichardMCNgo · 5h Recently I watched a kid try to do origami, fail, cry for a minute, then pick it up again and succeed soon after. As a researcher, I aspire to that. At my best I'd feel overwhelmed by the vast height of the intellectual cliffs in front of me, sob it out, then start climbing. [Quoted post] Vivid Void ✓ @vividvoid · 6h When you're actually, no-shit thinking for yourself, you feel dumb. You are genuinely in a place of not-knowing. This is why extremely smart people are humble so often. They spend a lot of time humiliating themselves....