Quotes About Awareness

Significant signals have a way to reach you.

and news shared with millions gives you no real advantage.

I then completely gave up reading newspapers and watching television, which freed up a considerable amount of time

At the core, he tends to mistake the unknown for the nonexistent.

The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free.

We see flaws in others and not in ourselves.

What is surprising is not the magnitude of our forecast errors, but our absence of awareness of it.

to show people how lacking in clarity they were in their thoughts, how little they knew about the concepts they used routinely

Likewise, it is not possible to hold a situation in one's head without some element of bias.

They found it difficult to accept that their grasp was a little short. But

Normalmente, cuando decimos que alguien sabe escuchar es que tiene una indiferencia muy lograda.

You are taking the joy of ignorance out of the things we don't understand.

We certainly know a lot, but we have a built-in tendency to think that we know a little bit more than we actually do, enough of that little bit to occasionally get into serious trouble.

that slavery is more widespread than anticipated

knowledge is reached (mostly) by removing junk from people's heads.

Anyone who listens to news is one step below sucker.

Our inability to predict in environments subjected to the Black Swan, coupled with a general lack of the awareness of this state of affairs, means that certain professionals, while believing they are experts, are in fact not. Based on their empirical record, they do not know more about their subject matter than the general population, but they are much better at narrating—or, worse, at smoking you with complicated mathematical models. They are also more likely to wear a tie.

la conciencia de un problema no significa mucho, sobre todo cuando están en juego intereses personales o instituciones interesadas.

One would suppose that people living through the beginning of WWII had an inkling that something momentous was taking place. Not at all.fn3

Conversely, when you think you know more than you do, you are fragile (to error).

Missing a train is only painful if you run after it!

values unscheduled meditation.

major ramification of the ludic fallacy: how those whose job it is to make us aware of uncertainty fail us and divert us into bogus certainties through the back door.

Even from an anatomical perspective, it is impossible for our brain to see anything in raw form without some interpretation. We may not even always be conscious of it.