“To take the measure of something does not guarantee that we will understand its meaning, in fact, it may very well prevent us from doing so.”
— L.M. Sacasas, ”Whose Time? Which Temporality?”
Tag: Understanding
So Complicated
“What you pretend to be is so complicated that I don’t even bother to try to understand it.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery
How Description Leads to Understanding
Describing something with accuracy forces you to learn more about it. In this way, description can be a tool for learning.
Accurate description requires the following:
- Observation
- Curiosity about what you are witnessing
- Suspending assumptions about cause and effect
It can be difficult to stick with describing something completely and accurately. It’s hard to overcome the tendency to draw conclusions based on partial information or to leave assumptions unexplored.
— How Description Leads to Understanding // Farnam Street
Feel Them in Yourself
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself. ”
— John Steinbeck, East of Eden
In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.”
— baba dioum (via swissmiss)
Lisa Marie Blair 