Have you ever read a book that gave you unexpected wisdom or lessons, ones that weren't advertised as per the topic of the book?Strunk and White is probably my favorite book of all time, that completely changed how I convey information to other people. In speaking, visually, and of course in writing. But the life lesson I didn't expect was "It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong". He's talking about writing form of course, but we can take it further. You can often make a "wrong" choice a very good choice if you're willing to stick to it and run with it in life.
>>25558438>He's talking about writing form of courseHow we communicate is intimately tied to everything we do and we can't really separate them. This is one of the failures of prescription, reducing something so fundemental to who and what we are to dogma and something external. A certain level of prescription is good and probably necessary, but it can not replace understanding.
>>25558466In 10 years of engineering, I've gravitated towards ironing our bulletproof principles that end of guiding most decisions. I've found that most senior engineers operate the same way, and was even told that by one. Even when I'm confused at the surface level, when I default to those principles, things always tend to work out. Knowing when to deviate though, to your point, is something you can't teach either and experience valuable as gold.
>>25558438>You can often make a "wrong" choice a very good choice if you're willing to stick to it and run with it in life.Though if you're not just "wrong" but actually wrong then doubling down can quickly turn a minor oopsie into an outright disaster.
