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“Self-education is the only kind of education there is.” ~Isaac Asimov   Constantly remind yourself of how little you truly know and of how mysterious the world remains. Then flip the script and self-educate.   Cultivate curiosity like a cat with nine lives. Ask deep questions. Then go even deeper until the abyss is snarling in your face. Then double down. Don’t blink. For there is no end. There are only deeper questions to be asked, and even deeper curiosity with which to li

“Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.” ~John Keats   The marriage of Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Negative Capability is Skeptical Capability.   Imagine an intellectual razor and a liminal question mark staff. Imagine wielding these tools between worlds, elevated above the battlefield of the human condition in glorious in-be-tweeness and healthy nonattachment.   You

“I have gained this by philosophy; I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.” ~Aristotle   Audacity. Daring. Insouciance. The courage to be dynamite when everyone else is choosing to be rocks. The impudence to pull Heaven into Hell or raise Hell into Heaven. The fearlessness to slap false gods in the face while everyone obsequiously obfuscates their existential angst.   If philosophy is good for anything, it is good for rubbing the s