The seat of intelligence and the misery of memory.
An entrepreneur is a person who wields the seat of intelligence. It is a person who can create something that stands out from everything else in a unique way. To describe it with one word would be "Uniqueness". This means that such a person would need to use intelligence to construct a structure that is different than any other out there.
Memory based intelligence
I've never liked school, neither do I walk my profession that was "Given" to me by "It". If I was to do that id be going against myself, but that is a different story now.
School teaches us how to use memory as a source of intelligence. Memorizing something and afterwards puking it out somewhere that we think it might fit it. The thing is that there is absolutely no uniqueness in that. Its like memorizing a favorite song and thinking you were the one who made it. That doesn't work out and that is why you would never get famous by singing it.
The pain from this doesn't come from doing it, it comes from the lack of respect and appreciation you would get from someone. And I can't even say its pain, rather dullness and a stagnant feeling. Surely it will stand out for someone who has no idea what you are talking about, but what we memorize is only so much. Our mind wasn't constructed to cling on tons of info.
Intelligence expressed as Uniqueness
Now I'm not saying school didn't teach me anything. It thought and showed me what my heart wanted to follow. Also helped me find where my focus could enjoy staying. The memories of knowledge had been transformed into something else though, most of them didn't stay for long, but really, can you remember more than a thing or two from school ? No. We remember only that which our desires resonate with. And it gets transformed from a memory to an expression.
There are two dimensions to our intelligence. One is the perception of it, the other is the penetration of it and there is the memory. Once we dip into it, it starts to get cyclical, the mind cycles the past in so many ways, yet nothing new.Memory is just a resource.
The only thing it is good for is to be red by the mind and filtered, afterwards being let down to make room for more new things to arise. Just like scanning a flash drive.
The nature and purpose of the human intellect is that it should be able to penetrate. But over the time we have lost that ability to penetrate because we rely on memory, hence there is nothing new and sharp to stand out. There is only the past to be transformed in different shapes, but with the same taste.
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Hey, @vangelov, i like your from-the-heart wisdom. Reading your post led me to remember this book I've read recently called From Zero to One by Peter Thiel, where we – counterintuitively for me until that moment – talks how a true entrepreneur seeks to build his own monopoly. The essence of this is uniqueness, like you say. It can be a uniqueness of product, of distribution, of brand (harder to do, but, hey look at Trump :)). Cheers!
Thanks for sharing some feedback :) I will have a look at the book when I find some free time 👀
You're welcome. In fact, it a quick 200 short page that you can read in a day, but it's full of wisdom. Alternatively, if you like podcasting, you can listen to Tim Ferriss's short interview with Peter Thiel, where some of those ideas are explored as well.
Anyway, I see you're Bulgarian. Big shout out from a Romanian native. We, in the Oltenia region of southern Romania, used to watch "the Bulgarian" TV with improvised dishes, during Communist times.
I agree with you in the broad respect: rote memorization is not very impressive in terms of education. Teaching kids to memorize the dates of when the Aztecs ruled is pointless when we all have access to wikipedia in our pockets.
But I do think there is another, deeper sense in which having a "good" memory can aid in "penetration" as you see it. Having an impressive memory is not just about storing information but storing it in a way that encodes the information as as to be easy to recall in the right context. If you've read a lot of books and have retained the information in a way that makes you a good conversationalist because you can access the right facts in the right context, that is part of what it means to be educated and intelligent.
Yes I do agree with you on this one. Although we need to learn to memorize that which is true to us, not to use it as a bulking process for supply and demand
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This was quite an intriguing post. I am not completely against or in favor of the schooling system. I believe it has a few pros and cons at the same time. What it teaches us is to build synthetic imagination which is to simply rearrange existing ideas/ concepts to come up with something seemingly new. However it fails to teach us to create creative intelligence which is about creating something unique and which was precisely the crux of your post. While we do go to school in the morning, I believe we should spend time exploring ourselves and parents should do the same with their kids in the evening so they can help them understand and refine their uniqueness. I really like the issues you highlight in your posts. Good job! :)
Thank you for the lovely comment.. I think people need to spend some alone time once in a while⌚ But that gets seemingly harder every now and then :/
It does especially when you have lots on your plate.
I just absolutely love not only the article but the images as well. And I thank you for introducing me to the wonderful world of GUWEIZ. Read it on Sanday but forget to live a comment%( the same time it was nice to read again now - love good posts which you can read on and on and still find something to learn! The very best from me! I would like to see more post like this one, but to be honest, I also liked a lot your fun post about 10eggs for a chicken!!
I think that you will really enjoy this Scientist vs Mystic Talk, as the mystic talks a lot about how intelligence is not really used in it's full potential when people do not look beyond facts, do not go deeper in their understanding of the world by observing themselves.
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