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- Sep 2023
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docdrop.org docdrop.org
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you mentioned the idea of like beginner mind and you have a quote from Suzuki about 01:03:40 the in The Beginner's mind there's many possibilities and experts mine there are a few
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- this was a surprising adjacency to discover Levin connecting Daisetz Suzuki's concept of Beginner's mind to his research. It demonstrates a broad perspective of research
- adjacency between
- Suzuki's Beginner's mind
- foolbodied
- wisdom signaling
- adjacency statement
- I just finished annotating Gyuri's referall to Wisdom commons article in which the author introduced the notion of foolhood and wisdom signaling
- These are saying the same thing as Suzuki's concept of beginner's mind
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lessfoolish.substack.com lessfoolish.substack.com
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It is wiser to become less foolish instead of more wise, which avoids “wisdom signaling.”
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- definition: foolbodied
- to be aware of how ignorant (foolish) one is in an embodied way
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definition: wisdom signaling
- the act of talking about wisdom that conveys a sense of epistemic authority or that may sound wise regardless of the actual presence of wisdom
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- this subtle shift is actually quite important
- the centrality of our ignorance, in contrast to the focus on our wisdom is a natural antidote to reifying ego
- Wisdom signaling appears to be a movement towards the direction of reifying ego and self-righteousness
- Many of the greatest minds (and hearts) of humanity talk genuinely about how ignorant they are about reality because of the paradox that
- the more you know, the greater your discovery of how much you don't know, and therefore the awareness of how expansive our ignorance is
- in this sense, the continual reminder and awareness of the enormity of one's ignorance creates authentic sense of humbleness, not a contrived one
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