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“It is not the human who listens eagerly and memorises what philosopher’s say who is prepared for philosophising, but the human who is prepared to carry into action what is pronounced in philosophy and to live by it.” 🐬 Stobaeus |
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The smartest people in the room all have these things in common:
1. The questions they ask instead of the answers they assume
2. The silence they sit in without reaching for distraction
3. The discomfort they allow themselves to think through
4. The perspectives they genuinely try to understand
5. The books that challenge their existing worldview
6. The debates they engage in with intellectual humility
7. The time they spend observing before reacting
8. The assumptions they question, especially their own
9. The solitude they use for reflection, not escape
10. The history they study so they stop repeating it
11. The arts they expose themselves to regularly
12. The problems they sit with before rushing to solve
13. The language they continuously expand and refine
14. The opinions they are willing to change with new evidence
15. The ideas they cross-pollinate across different disciplines



