Reliance on other people's knowledge.. .. buys us all a lot of time. It also buys us, in essence, many billions of prosthetic brains.

Kathryn Schulz
Reliance on other people's knowledge.. .. buys us all a...
Reliance on other people's knowledge.. .. buys us all a...
Reliance on other people's knowledge.. .. buys us all a...
Reliance on other people's knowledge.. .. buys us all a...
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If you rely on other people's knowledge, that’s all you will know. You won’t know anything that the person who told you doesn’t know. Having others teach you things would allow you to grow as human being. It would teach you to learn and even develop new skills, but it wouldn’t teach you to think for yourself. The best way to learn how to think for yourself is to read different books and learn from the mistakes of others so that you can avoid making them yourself.

Source: Being Wrong: Adventures In The Margin Of Error

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