What I have learned at 32

Ryan Holiday recently wrote a post about what he has learned so far. It’s not been my birthday but I like the format. It’s something I can be publicly wrong about later. Please do add your agreements and disagreements in the comments.

1. Nobody knows anything.
2. The best way to judge your friends’ morally is not to. Try and maintain a state of negative capability.
3. Your real judgements about the world are your actions.
4. If you don’t read you are choosing to be at a disadvantage relative to the person you could become.
5. Try to think rather than have opinions. Opinions are what we think clever people have but we are wrong. Schooling is terrible at teaching us this.
6. Politics is the subject where clever people are the most stupid.
7. Biology beats maths. Pragmatism beats ideology.
8. Data can disprove your long-held beliefs very, very easily.
9. Almost no-one is interested in data…