[IT'S NOT HOW GOOD YOU ARE, IT'S HOW GOOD YOU WANT TO BE.]

by: Paul Arden
Phaidon

i love this book, it drops me many ideas that really opposite to majority mind set.
(i usually wont pick any book that “teach” u how to do, or drops u any second-hand believes. but this is different.)
well, i would love to count this book somehow is promoting Seth~~ haa, opening ur closed mind, give u more possibility in life!

as a creator, we should be creative . right?

” it’s wrong to be right.p.54

being right is based upon knowledge and exprience and is often provable.
knowledge comes from the past, so it’s sefe. it is also out of date. it’s the opposite of originality.

expreience is built from solutions to old situations and problems. the old situations are probably different from the present ones, so that old solutions will hav to be bent to fit new problems (and possibly fit badly). also the likelihood is that, if you’ve got the experience, you’ll probably use it.

this is lazy.

experience is the opposite of being creative.

if you can prove you’re right, you’re set in concrete. you cannot move with the times or with other people.

being right is also being boring. your mind is closed. you are not open to new ideas. you are rooted in your own rightness, which is arrogant. arrogance is a valuable tool, but only if used very sparingly.

worst of all, being right has a tone of morality about it. to be anything else sounds weak or falllible, and people who are right would hate to be thought fallible.

so: it’s wrong to be right, because people who are right are rooted n the past, rigid-minded, dull and smug.

there’s no talking to them.”

<<<dont talk to them, the smugs!!! haa haa