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Insight is absorbed by context
Many quotes have changed their meaning to me over the long run
Sometimes a quote or a metaphor may not make perfect sense when you first see it.
(My personal examples of Einstein, “Reap what you sow” and “Warrior in a garden”,
“Love is not the opposite of hate”)
It’s the number of links you can attach within experience and context of your life to the quote which strengthens it’s connection in your mind.
Sure it could be taken in as the most direct or highest resolution within the least words, but it is the CONTEXT which gives us the foundation for undersanding strips of the world taken out.
For example: we all know we must “work hard” at something but we need the personal experience with context to understand it.
If Content is King, Context is the Kingdom - Gary Vee
This is why with academic minds, there’s more.. at least theoretical connection between so many ideas which gives it a bed to stick to. See Increasing contact points
(From the assimilated similar note, Familiarity and token phrasing)
Why is it that supposedly the best lessons in life are so commonly heard and we all “know” them yet we don’t live the lives that these lessons promise?
It’s not laziness or lack of hunger
It’s lack of depth of understanding.
If you’re at all familiar with popular lessons in the western world, not much of anything Jordan Peterson wrote about in 12 rules was groundbreaking. They were mostly pretty simple lessons.
.. so why did it have such an impact?
Peterson is amazing at taking the obvious things and running through such a depth, making such a great argument for it that it’s damn hard to doubt it.(As far as significance of it goes)
This is why Atomic Notes should be concept-based as we would lose connectivity the more we spread an idea, if we keep it at base level it is clear what connects. This is why we prefer High-fidelity association.