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One of the most important things about humanity is arrogance: I know everything, except a few things… and once I know that, I’ll know everything I need to know.
- What is knowable is 10% of all knowledge.
- And a normal person knows about 1% of that 10%.
- 90% of that 1% he knows wrong… what he ‘knows’ just isn’t so.
- And he thinks he knows at least half of it.
This is true for everyone, PhD, Nobel Prize winner, Maven… What you know doesn’t really grow, only what you think you know grows…
Just watch the millions of books self-published on Amazon… Average truth value: 3%. Which means: 97% is not true.
13 or so years ago I ordered a report for $97. It came in an audio, a woman with this breezy spiritual voice, you know the voice, said what she said.
