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1. Accept Cluelessness

2. One movie I particularly like is,
"Shooter," with Mark Walhberg.

3. It is about an ex-sniper who is hired to
reverse engineer what they say is an
attempt on the president.

4. But it turns out to be some big
conspiracy, with all kinds of cool plot
twists.

5. There's one scene that's one my movie
favorites.

6. The main character and his sidekick go
and visit this old guy. He's the
archetype of the old wise character
who's been around, knows all about
everybody's dirty laundry, etc.

7. One line he says has ALWAYS stuck
with me, after he goes on and on
about how deep government
conspiracies run.

8. "Just when you think you know, you're
wrong!"

9. Meaning we humans are good at
convincing ourselves we know things.
When we are really pretty clueless.

10. If you want to do an experiment, ask a
bunch of people a difficult questions.
One that HAS an answer, but one that
most people don't really know.

11. You'll find that most people will have a
hard time looking you dead in the eye
and saying, "I really don't know."

12. What many people do is try to come
up with an answer that "sounds" good.
So we look like we know what we're
talking about.

13. But the secret is accepting that you
DON'T know, or you COULD be wrong
is the best thing ever.

14. Because it will OPEN your mind to
NEW ideas, thoughts, models of the
world, ways of looking at things.

15. One of the maxims from NLP is that
whoever is most flexible will prevail.

16. If you have a flexible mindset, and can
look at things in many different ways,
you'll generally be much more
resourceful than people who need to
be "right" all the time.

17. The natural way of learning (not sitting
in school) is frustration, then curiosity,
then exploration, then testing, then
knowledge.

18. You are frustrated because you want
something or you can't do something.

19. This leads to becoming curious about
how you can get it.

20. Then you start to take action, trying
different things.

21. Then you get feedback, and pretty
soon you can get what you want.

22. Until this process starts all over again.

23. The more you go through this, the
more you'll learn.

24. The more you'll learn, the more you'll
be able to get.

25. If you need to KNOW the TRUTH all
the time, you're stuck.

26. Since you KNOW, there's no reason to
EXPLORE. To find out. To grow. To
improve.

27. Knowledge in and of itself can be
pretty boring.

28. Continuously searching for NEW
knowledge is what life is all about.

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