Think you don’t know when you know, and be uncertain when you are certain

Think you don’t know when you know, and be uncertain when you are certain

• We are at our sharpest in thinking mode when we work on a question, not after it’s answered.
  • This proves why it’s so hard to come up with interesting questions, and why I often say that a silly question is the best.
  • Try coming up with one: How does a woodpecker’s tongue work, why is the air transparent, but the sky is blue?
• The practitioner of the Socratic method is comfortable with what he doesn’t know, but even more comfortable doubting what he thinks he knows.
  • His greatest struggle is the search for value. Reading and note-taking might be substitutes for the Socratic method.
  • First of all, because we constantly challenge the writer of the idea.
  • Challenging oneself follows the first point. So yes, note-taking is the Socratic questioning of oneself and the author.
• The most pressing problem for non-practitioners of the Socratic method is that they are often certain when they shouldn’t be and think that they know something they don’t.
  • The philosophy of Socrates that encapsulates his method isn’t a set of beliefs that can be easily transferred. It’s an activity, just as note-taking is an activity, so is the Socratic method.
    • The thinking activity that has been covered by Schedrovitsky is one of the Stoic disciplines.
  • The method has an impact on your opinion; it doesn’t simply replace one idea with another, though that might happen during the execution of elements of the method.
  • What it actually does is build tolerance for testing what you believe.
  • The practitioner changes his relationship with personal opinions; to him, they become just one of many possible explanations.

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