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The best way to approach utility is to give help first, and not ask for it. If there is someone whose knowledge you need, find a way to be useful to that person.
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…make a decision that from this day forward, you will start making the contacts and accumulating the knowledge, experiences, and people to help you achieve your goals.
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Unfortunately, when it comes to our own knowledge and opinions, we often favor feeling right over being right.
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We move into scientist mode when we’re searching for the truth: we run experiments to test hypotheses and discover knowledge.
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If knowledge is power, knowing what we don’t know is wisdom.
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The curse of knowledge is that it closes our minds to what we don’t know. Good judgment depends on having the skill – and the will – to open our minds.
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We all have blind spots in our knowledge and opinions. The bad news is that they can leave us blind to our blindness, which gives us false confidence…
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…in many situations, those who can’t… don’t know they can’t.
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When we lack the knowledge and skills to achieve excellence, we sometimes lack the knowledge and skills to judge excellence.
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When adults have the confidence to acknowledge what they don’t know, they pay more attention to how strong evidence is and spend more time reading material that contradicts their opinions.
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