Takeoff Into Chaos

Chapter 2 — Takeoff Into Chaos. 198 thoughts gathered here — 113 made it into the written chapter, the rest wait in the pool. This introduction is a placeholder for the author's own words.

The spine

The thoughts this chapter was written from, in order of appearance.

  1. only one thing is certain
  2. the idea that you can make life stick to…
  3. The world of an infant must be tremendously confusing…
  4. The world of an infant must be tremendously confusing…
  5. imagine if you will what it would feel like…
  6. When Krish disrupted the visual cortex, his subjects' ability…
  7. There are welcome, neutral, and unwelcome things
  8. When struck by chaos and disorder, our minds set…
  9. When struck by chaos and disorder, our minds set…
  10. We're naturally wired to organize the world into a…
  11. consider what happens when we are trying to think
  12. Spinoza’s early early account arises when reality does not…
  13. Another concept is order, chaos, and change from order…
  14. We are always living with order and chaos
  15. Cass is not necessarily all bad
  16. Paige 88 crisis and chaos often offer great opportunity…
  17. Chaos needed for growth
  18. daring but controlled ie
  19. As Winston Churchill once complained, the future s one…
  20. Chapter 1 verse 4 one generation goes and another…
  21. Chapter 1 verse 5 the sun rises and the…
  22. Chapter 1 verse 9 that which has been is…
  23. Chapter 9 verse 11 again I saw under the…
  24. Chapter 9 verse 2 everything be falls everyone equally
  25. Chapter 7 verse 15 I have seen everything in…
  26. Chapter 2 verse 18 and so I hated all…
  27. chapter 5 verse 11 Sweet is the sleep of…
  28. Transmission of tradition
  29. Thus, we can think about entropy in two ways
  30. Thus, we can think about entropy in two ways
  31. The heroes of fairy tales are vulnerable, and that…
  32. The first leads from radical vulnerabil-ity to a state…
  33. The first leads from radical vulnerability to a state…
  34. Vulnerability shakes the fabric of the narratively organized world
  35. The narrative ending aims at a precise balancing in…
  36. The narrative ending aims at a precise balancing in…
  37. In 2011, Nassim Taleb wrote about a concept he…
  38. In 2011, Nassim Taleb wrote about a concept he…
  39. Start-ups are antifragile businesses
  40. First, as Nassim Nicholas Talib writes in his book…
  41. Children are the kings and queens of antifragility, the…
  42. Sometimes, life is like a mousetrap
  43. We know these clusters of unlucky events simply happen…
  44. We know these clusters of unlucky events simply happen…
  45. people believe in the "balancing force of the universe
  46. This mistake is usually called belief in the "law…
  47. The Nobel laureate Herbert Simon argued that the same…
  48. We can think up a sophisticated program in the…
  49. how we got to be as big as we…
  50. Therefore, the number of infected people can grow in…
  51. Therefore, the number of infected peo-ple can grow in…
  52. vastness
  53. And those who were seen dancing were thought to…
  54. In the same way, you cannot control that you…
  55. Life is continually changing and if you're trying to…
  56. Paige 75 perhaps the hardest lesson to learn is…
  57. Some of us are perfectionists
  58. Some of us are perfectionists
  59. Thus having more time to generate options opens the…
  60. more memory is not generally better
  61. To understand why less information and computation can be…
  62. To understand why less information and computation can be…
  63. a professional is on a mission
  64. if you shirk the responsibility of confronting the unexpected…
  65. . If you shook the responsibility of confronting the…
  66. If the folks at Boeing, especially senior executives, had…
  67. If the folks at Boeing, especially senior executives, had…
  68. At your absolute climax of fear, you must do…
  69. There is one thing I'd say though
  70. There is one thing I'd say though
  71. Beyond these are factors of human nature itself
  72. Western life is methodically made to sound perilous or…
  73. Western life is methodically made to sound perilous or…
  74. Other factors color our aversion to believing that most…
  75. The news-organization incentive to emphasize the negative can be…
  76. In contemporary Western politics, the party out of power…
  77. Intellectuals, politicians, tort lawyers, and the media have in…
  78. Today we have the knowledge necessary to detect small…
  79. In some terrible way, the path of young women's…
  80. Overview
  81. TIP
  82. One important thing to remember is that in a…
  83. When it comes to high-impact events, there is another…
  84. The probability of experiencing a financial crisis within one…
  85. From burning coal to mining critical minerals for electric…
  86. From burning coal to mining critical minerals for electric…
  87. You do not live as an individual and a…
  88. In conclusion
  89. conscious choice is the most empowering resource that I…
  90. do not seek to have everything that happens happen…
  91. each time you choose to trust yourself and take…
  92. It's true, that standing up straight with your shoulders…
  93. Third, get comfortable with being unsure
  94. We need to accept an even celebrate what we…
  95. Key Lesson
  96. Key Learnings
  97. embracing change, as we experience a constant avalanche of…
  98. other writers shared M's fascination with the unstable
  99. let's take the average of four independent judgments this…
  100. they even went as far as making daily broadcast…
  101. There is also a border between order and chaos…
  102. Paige 194 without a sense of humor, life can…
  103. She who only looks inward, will find only chaos…
  104. Three situation constitute natural defining moments, and deserve our…
  105. life can be difficult, and there may be times…
  106. Hurricane forecast to hit Florida?
  107. When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself
  108. The moment I look back in my life and…
  109. 9
  110. One who sees a throng of 600,000 Israelites says…
  111. What was created after He rested?
  112. Do not think that any created thing can be…
  113. in the words of Isaiah to be a light…

The pool

Gathered for this chapter, not yet used — raw material for what comes next.

Change

Action

Decision

Community

Emotion

Takeoff into chaos

Conflict

Consciousness

Living

Balance

Brain-mind

Business

Communication

Awareness

Purpose

Parenting

Consequences

Experience

Insight

Energy

Failure

Challenge

Judgment