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Metaphors are Your Intellectual Weapons in Preventing Mistakes

It’s impossible to know exactly the movement of every atom and electron. Reality is too large and complex to fit inside our brains. As the saying goes, “the map is not the territory.”

New ideas and metaphors are the intellectual knives to cut up reality and fit it into your brain. Some of these simplifications are useful, and help you see answers that were previously invisible. Reading a large amount, and from a wide variety gives you the best chance of finding these ideas. Finding more ideas means fewer stupid mistakes.
Scott H Young