> Most professions would benefit from at least one a day month where you did nothing but think
Bill Gates used to do this. Called it a "think week" - "...I would literally take boxes out to a beach place and sit there for a week reading them day and night and scribbling on them to putting it entirely online"
source: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/26/bill-gates-took-solo-think-w...
It reminds me of a quote I heard recently about certainty (which I can’t quite remember, but goes something like): “The only thing certain about certainty is that it’s almost certainly wrong”. Or words to that effect. I think he forgot that one. But the rest are excellent. Update: someone told me it was Pliny who first said something like that.
“If something is impossible to know you are better off not being very smart“
Alternative view: just about everything is impossible to “know”, and so the gift of intelligence is the ability to contemplate and then pass along insights and interpretations to others.
Bill Gates used to do this. Called it a "think week" - "...I would literally take boxes out to a beach place and sit there for a week reading them day and night and scribbling on them to putting it entirely online" source: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/26/bill-gates-took-solo-think-w...