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Hi, my name is Julien Reszka, welcome to my blog.
I write about common misconceptions regarding life decisions and how to overcome them.
I'm not afraid of controversy so expect some of my posts to challenge some of your most deeply rooted assumptions about how you should live your life.

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Learning Effectively

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Turns Out People Shouldn't Try to Learn From Failure. On The Importance of Growing Success People often say that failure is the best teacher. But is it really true?

First, let's define a few things :
Growing : It's when there's more of it and more of it and more if it ...
Success : When you expect something and it happens
Failure : When you expect something and it doesn't happen


The problem with people who think that they can learn from failure is that they will not pay enough attention to their successes and try to learn from failure and then fail to learn.

The only way someone can learn is from success.

There is no other way to succeed than to try something often and repeatedly and see if it meets our expectations every time.

The greater amount of success you have the greater amount of success you will have, unless...

Unless you think that failure teaches anything.

Thinking that people can learn from failure is wishful thinking.

There is nothing to learn from fa…
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Predicting Outcomes

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Turns out amateurs don't become professionals the day they get paid. On the importance of consistency in accuracy.
Professionals are often portrayed as being paid amateurs but my take on this is that getting payed is only a symptom of being a professional.

If getting payed is only a symptom then what causes someone to be a professional?

A professional is capable of consistently predicting the outcomes of his actions.
An amateur is capable of consistently surprising everyone, including himself.
It's not sure whether it will be a good outcome, or whether it will be a bad outcome, one thing is sure it's that it's not clear what the outcome will be.


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Distributing Attention

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Turns out people shouldn't neglect the intrinsic value of the present. On the importance of how we distribute our attention.
All political ideologies are an expression of a policy with an attention distribution. The way attention is distributed tells a lot about ideology.


Whereas Moderate (Conservatist) ideologies are focusing their attention on multiple layers of the present (Curve B), Primitive (Immobilist), and Radical (Progressivist) ideologies, focus their attention on the edges of the present (Curve A).


Immobilism is about procrastination of expectations.
Conservatism is about prediction of expectations.
Progressivism is about anticipation of expectations.

Immobilism and Progressivist ideologies are complementary.

All political ideologies are an expression of a policy.

Whether the policy is about spread, diversity or dependency of attention, whether it is generalisation, specialisation, concentration, diffusion, separation or unification, what makes monarchism different from …
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