"Smart people know we're all idiots."
After spending years pretending like he knew everything, The Chemical Buddha eventually came to understand that he didn't know very much. He reasoned that if he didn't know everything than no one could know everything. Years later, he figured out that that meant there might actually be someone who knew something he didn't. So in the eyes of that someone, he was an idiot. (Because TCB thought people who didn't know stuff he did were obviously idiots.) Although The Chemical Buddha never realized it before passing away, we have come to theorize that those who realize they're an idiot are at least slightly ahead of those who think they know everything. But of course, you also don't know what you don't know. We're pretty sure if The Chemical Buddha was still with us, he would say if you don't know what you don't know then why learn anything at all?
How curious are you about life?
Is there something in your life that could benefit from an outside opinion?
Do you ask people who know things you don't know for help? Why or why not?
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Experts are Idiots. Idiots are Experts.
“No one knows, but we all get to find out.”
The Chemical Buddha wasn’t a big believer in expert advice or professional opinions. People who thought they knew everything were usually proven to not know anything. Because their brains would twist the information to fit what they saw. The ‘experts’ mind/intellect wasn’t open to seeing something new. He preferred the thinking of novices and idiots. They usually had a way of boiling things down into the simplest components. Some would say they were too simple, but TCB found a lot of value in starting there. For the record, The Chemical Buddha never passed himself off as an expert on anything other than himself. He was the only person who knew the most about TCB. That was the reason he was often pissed off when people tried to act like they were an expert on his life and what he should do with it.
What do you know? What don’t you know? What do you think you know?
How well do you know your own life and what motivates you?
The Chemical Buddha wasn’t a big believer in expert advice or professional opinions. People who thought they knew everything were usually proven to not know anything. Because their brains would twist the information to fit what they saw. The ‘experts’ mind/intellect wasn’t open to seeing something new. He preferred the thinking of novices and idiots. They usually had a way of boiling things down into the simplest components. Some would say they were too simple, but TCB found a lot of value in starting there. For the record, The Chemical Buddha never passed himself off as an expert on anything other than himself. He was the only person who knew the most about TCB. That was the reason he was often pissed off when people tried to act like they were an expert on his life and what he should do with it.
What do you know? What don’t you know? What do you think you know?
How well do you know your own life and what motivates you?
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