Category Archive

Naïve and stupid (+)

Chicken

False consensus / everyone sees the world the same / refusing to see difference

Conscious of danger

Reject

Embrace

Discriminating / selective

Stuck with it all

Don’t think for yourself (I don’t, and thank God—that’s why my life works) (+)

Free thinkers who know better and are drunk on their own sense of agency / alarm bells ringing but don’t take guidance seriously

Dependent

I’m in charge of my life

Mistaking urgency for categorical superiority / arbitrary / order people around (-)

Able to see the reality of the situation / trusting instructions

Free thinkers see what you can’t see, know better than you / alarm bells ringing but not taking guidance seriously

Don’t think for yourself

Not interested in other opinions (-)

Listen to everyone

Don’t waste time

Have to wade through garbage to find the real

Not interested in other opinions (+)

Listen to everyone

Miss out

Get it all

Urgency (+)

Passively slow / apathetic

Being pushed around by others

Doing it my way

Imitation without substance (-)

Real McCoy

Easy lookalike / to the untrained eye, you pass

So few / hard work / have to do from foundation up / how to get to mastery / have to have a mentor

Audaciously confident / decisive without substance (+)

Wasting time / dithering

Reality will catch up

Slowing down / researching

Decisive without wisdom (-)

Wise ass

Can fool a ton of people

No one listens