Andres

“Could you recognize a “level” or a “perspective” if you met one on the street? Could you point it out to someone else? What about an approach, an assumption, a concept, a condition, a context, a framework, an issue, a model, a process, a range, a role, a strategy, a tendency, or a variable? These are metaconcepts: concepts about concepts. They serve as a kind of packing material in which academics, bureaucrats, and corporate mouthpieces clad their subject matter. Only when the packaging is hacked away does the object come into view. The phrase on the aspirational level adds nothing to aspire, nor is a prejudice reduction model any more sophisticated than reducing prejudice.”
― Steven Pinker, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds. Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties, and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be. It”
― John O'Leary, On Fire: The 7 Choices to Ignite a Radically Inspired Life

“Assume ignorance before malevolence. No one has a direct pipeline to your wants and needs—not even you.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos