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Best question here would be how is Israel similar to Nazi Germany, and also, how is Israel different to Nazi germany? And so forth with each. That will get you better answers. When you lay it as a dichotomy you are asking for a limited answer.

I completely overlooked distinctions as the basis for learning, which it is! That's a cool one. Mastering a craft i.e the ability to draw distinctions more and more the deeper you go. For an untrained mind it will look like a fuzzy ball of the same thing, but the master is conscious of a lot more. Think of mandarin characters, for an anglosajon they all look like the same strokes and simbols. But a trained speaker gets the meaning of each symbol correctly.

That kind of intro editing is cringe. That's the real doom.

Profound and an interesting practice. I am trying to take it somewhere. I am more drawn to sameness for some reason. A cool example of sameness: A cartoon drawing of yourself; it's cartoon, it's made of paper and ink, but it is the same as you. And also things that you thought were different but you see the sameness in a new light it always feels like a mental level up.

So is war. If you want peace prepare for war.

Degree of sovereignty.

I was jamming a bit with those two concepts. Any example: Two people are both evil, sameness. But a different kind of evil, difference. There is a sameness in all pathologies: every sickness is a sickness of the cell. An example of sameness. But in practice you are always drawing differences otherwise you can't treat them correctly. Another one: in this forum we are the same in that we all watch Leo's episodes. We hold a sameness of information, like we are all espectating the same match. When people watch all the same match there is a sameness of experience, which produces connection. We are seeing the same thing. But someone from the outside knows nothing about the match, that person will see think very differently when hearing about that match. Hopefully you're seeing how you can extrapolate that into any domain. There are words that denote sameness: citizens, students, action movies. But you don't treat every student the same. You can't teach a 6 years old the same as an 18 y.o, on the other hand there are universal principles of education that just expresses differently.

You can ask that question in any argument and it will help you, for sure. In what ways are x and y different and in which ways the same? Good starting point to dig deeper. Sometimes it helps to see things as sameness and sometimes is best to see the differences. The point is that your mind already rotates between the two a lot in your deeds. Sometimes you will draw sameness everywhere, sometimes two things are completely alien.

A banana before walking/running is the glory.

Combine it with nuts so you go bananas and nuts

@Ramanujan There are a lot of caveats with the notion of passion. You kinda have to carve it out. I think you need more than 5 years, because the mind is very stubborn. And you have to do more side work than what a phd can offer you. Also academia can screw your passion too. Passion is inherent to your condition as a human, you can't really avoid it. It is how you're able to get things done. Purpose is more straithtfoward. When you go to the foodmarket you have the purpose of eating.

Mastery is a rare thing. In a 3rd world country is extra rare because you have more survival pressure. But also, the examples on the book are of people of different countries and different times in history. You can't really overlook that. Some of them didn't even have electricity.

Ultimately you want to conform to none other than yourself.

As long as you're precise you don't run into much problem. What matters is how much you can grasp, how much changes you. Also a single word doesn't make the cut in the majority of cases. You need a thousand of different words to produce a single insight most of the times. Conformity is one of those words. As long as no one makes the effort to understand, the insight lies dormant. But that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Abiding to rules is a prerequisite for a lot of things in life. A lot of people are confomist zombies precisely because they don't care about rules. But to see that you need the example. You get it from life obviously. Also not every rule is the same. There is a rule to believe only in a Christian God and there is a rule of freedom of religion.

Funny, to me is exactly the oposite. I didn't find any value in 48 lop. Mastery is a book where you can take a peak into different expertise domains, Da Vinci, Jobs, Darwing. I loved that. A lot of useful concepts get ingrained indirectly.