Category: Musings Page 4 of 5

On the surface, it seems that having knowledge is a good thing. I am a firm believer of acquiring knowledge, regardless of what field it may be. You never know when you might need a skill or understanding of a particular concept, and it is often that you can apply that knowledge in a drastically different context. An understanding of one subject will complement another to some degree, regardless of how related they are. For instance, Einstein loved the elegance and beauty that he found in music, where because of music he sought to achieve this same beauty in the formulation of his theories.

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A general rule of thumb that I have found is that the depth of conversation is usually inversely proportional to the number of people partaking in it. People tend to be more vulnerable in smaller groups, where in a bigger group it is more likely to find someone that you are not comfortable opening up to.

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To explain this rather fancy word, a heuristic is basically a ‘general rule of thumb’, being a shortcut for solving problems via the method of trial and error. On the face of it, heuristics are quite ugly and inefficient in solving problems. Thus, a heuristic is very much the antithesis of a mathematical proof – which often is elegant and even beautiful.

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Being in an age of much technological innovation, we are inundated by information. Every day YouTube uploads 576,000 hours worth of content every single day. Facebook generates 4 new petabytes of data every single day. In the United States alone, there were 304,912 books published in the single year of 2013. Assuming one reads 30 books a year, it would take about 10,164 years to get through all these books. If we live till 80 and we read at a rate of 30 books a year from the age of 15, that would require 156 lifetimes to consume a single year of all North American Content! In this, we have to be selective of who and what we read – to find the quality amidst the quantity.

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Throughout high school I have always thought that the fear of failure is a good thing. On the surface I thought that the fear of failing was a no brainer. Why would anyone want to fail and not succeed? Isn’t it a good to have the desire to do a task to the best of your ability?

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“If you think that you are smart, you are dumb. If you think that you are dumb, you are smart.”

When I was around 14 years old, this was a phrase that I always used to say in my friendship group in high school. Being 20 now (I’m slightly older albeit with questionable maturity), I think this phrase is awfully blunt. Nonetheless, I think there is some insight to be gained by this phrase.

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Today, my brother and I went for lunch with some church friends, where we decided to stop by at an Aldi after just to buy some Kombucha. Little did we know, however, that this bottle of Kombucha would be the most hard-earned Kombucha ever known.

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The book titled “The Elephant in the Brain” has been a rather fascinating read, in which it has tried to provide a very honest and incisive perspective of humanity. The books objective is to address the ‘elephant in the room’, in other words what is unspeakable in society with regards to the many facets comprising the human condition. In this post I’ll be exploring the ideas brought forth in Chapter 11 of the book, which explores the nature of art.

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