Thomas Vato > Quotes

“A single opinion is comfortable. Comfort is hostile to change. Progress is uncomfortable because it changes the comfort.”
― Thomas Vato, Questology

“Overthinking uses energy and leads to activity with no action. That is one particular problem many will face. Questology is the answer to cure this cancer.”
― Thomas Vato, Questology

“Without a deadline, your work is never over. The power of deadlines leads your work to completion. What is done poorly is better than what is 20% done perfectly assuming person operates on a progress-driven mindset. Then you can improve to make things less bad faster.”
― Thomas Vato

“Complexity is perplexing unless you know how to see.”
― Thomas Vato, Questology

“Intelligence uses knowledge to solve problems. More people can be proud of knowledge they have - fewer with intelligence. Everyone can get knowledge by holding one's attention for three seconds to gather it. Intelligence may require more than three seconds.”
― Thomas Vato, Questology

“Standards for decisions are the platform. They are like a court to do justice.”
― Thomas Vato, Questology

“Common sense defends from mistakes and failures in your practical judgement. Questions delegate the mind to think, so your mind will follow questions or common sense. Questions initiate, common sense guards. Two flags to follow.”
― Thomas Vato, Questology

“Action is one, two is a coincidence, three of them forms a trend and suggests a pattern.”
― Thomas Vato

“You can think before you do, you can think while you do and you can think after you've done something. If you can think - it often does not matter. Intelligence is impressive but hidden in the bush is useless. What matters is where it leads and what is produced by it.”
― Thomas Vato

“The question is the answer.”
― Thomas Vato, Questology

“The fastest way to become ridiculously biased is to collect opinions like berries and ignore facts. However, gathering facts are more useful berries; opinions have a better taste.”
― Thomas Vato, Questology

“The world would experience 180 degrees improvement if people stopped using ignorance as their fashion statement to be different. But the earth is flat!”
― Thomas Vato

“Debates are just intelligent entertainment.”
― Thomas Vato

“The reason why I prioritized philosophy over law in my higher education is for my ambivalent relationship with rules. Mathematics compensates it where the mind becomes creative, conceptual and flexible but also logically organized, data and rules-driven.”
― Thomas Vato

“Religion is a collective mindset. You can't change it easily because it's old and subscribed by many people.”
― Thomas Vato

“The leadership of the question is leading your mind while your mind governs this leader.”
― Thomas Vato, Questology

“To manage complexity, one needs to understand it to release oneself from the comfort zone or liberate the comfort zone from prejudice.”
― Thomas Vato, Questology

“All laws are made to be followed, replaced, broken or improved. The spirit of laws is just like this.”
― Thomas Vato

“Setting goals give you a life to live. When you have zero goals, it's the life that consumes you.”
― Thomas Vato

“Common sense is a good decision maker and problem solver until your mind reaches uncommon problems.”
― Thomas Vato, Questology

“Losing means winning if you are resilient and persistent. Everything great now has its imperfect versions in the past.”
― Thomas Vato

“Complexity gets managed when the noise does not hide like in Brazilian jungles, but gets naked like in the African desert. Complexity is tackled without entanglements then.”
― Thomas Vato, Questology

“Your priority is the authority.”
― Thomas Vato, Questology

“I think one of the best things someone can learn in university is to doubt what is obvious. Explain the simple and define the confusing. Complicate what is clear and clarify the complex. That is why you learn it at university, not in school. You cannot memorise it.”
― Thomas Vato

“Success solves old and creates new problems.”
― Thomas Vato

“There are probably no cases where there would be impossible to pose questions.”
― Thomas Vato, Questology

“Obedient thinking acts obediently. Then, the mind obeys to complexity like falling bricks respect the laws of physics. Not the best way to solve trouble because the mind is in a self-created bubble.”
― Thomas Vato, Questology

“To question is to think, act and create, so answers become thoughtful, actionable and creative.”
― Thomas Vato, Questology

“The problem is like a virus - both have their structures. To solve a problem is to crash the structure because structures make things work. Patterns are structural, so finding the design of the problem and killing it sends the problem to the graveyard.”
― Thomas Vato, Questology

“Inequality may not be fair but is necessary for progress.

When resources are distributed to people equally, you establish equality of outcome. If you photograph for a living or build rockets to colonize solar system - equality of outcome will establish the same value for both. It does not reward for resource-intensive and risky operations and discourages the development & progress because it's as valuable as photographing. Any reasonable person will do less complicated things if he is compensated in the same way.

BUT, when resources are unequally distributed - it distributes values too. It means it systemically designs 'rich & poor' people. It means if you are poor, then you can become rich. To complete this transformation, you must do something valuable. In this way, minor and huge progress happens. No matter if you are rich or poor - you will need opportunities.

It is the way we interact with opportunities constructs inequality.”
― Thomas Vato