Mahalo Mondays #16: Transparent fish, Paul Anka, learning fallacy
Hi everyone,
Mahalo Mondays is a newsletter on the most interesting I’ve learned or found over that week. It’ll range from articles, tips, videos, hacks, and other fascinating things that would broaden your perspective.
Mahalo means many things in Hawaiian (expressing gratitude), but for me, it’s a way to show appreciation and love to those that I’ve learned from. So I want to showcase their work and share it with all of you.
Transparent sea life:
Much of our ocean has not been discovered. It’s been said that we know more about space than we know about the waters of planet earth. It always fascinates us whenever we discover a new type of marine life animal, and here’s one: the barreleye fish.
So many questions to ask, like why a transparent head? Why did it evolve to have that feature? What other beautiful and fascinating lifeforms haven’t we discovered yet? Deep-sea creatures are so strange and wonderful.
Favorite song of the year so far:
Fly me to the moon — Paul Anka. The song is a classic and has been covered by many artists. Paul Anka’s version is my favorite due to the mood it puts me in. It feels as like you’re with the love of your life and waltzing like it’s just you two in the universe.
He also has this exception song if you’re interested.
Learning fallacy:
When you learn something from someone else, you adopt their ideas, concepts, and line of thinking. But if you don’t sit down to analyze and break down what you’ve learned, you’ll never start to think for yourself. You have to argue for it, against it, and generate your own ideas about it to truly “learn” it.
If you don’t, it’s simply an act of a charlatan. Learning requires us to unlearn what we just learn to understand what we just learned. For example, if someone tells us that we shouldn’t eat fast food because it’s bad, we should look to understand why instead of accepting it as dogma. Why is it bad and what makes it bad? If we ate “healthy” but don’t exercise, all of the healthy eating is for naught. Perhaps if we removed the sauce or high sodium/sugar contents from the fast-food item then it becomes “healthy”. Maybe we should redefine what’s healthy for us or not. If healthy is eating foods that help us lose weight, then it is calories that we should look at. If the fast-food that we eat have lower calories than “healthy” food, then it’s an option we can use.
By using first principles thinking, many options open up for us and the learning can truly begin.
Until next week,
Scott
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