It is a saying. Taking things with a pinch of salt is often needed to avoid blindly accepting something doubtful.
The block of salt is needed because if you are going to make breakthrough despite reading old information you are going to need to use a lot of salt, much of that information will need to be incorrect, incomplete or wrong if you are going to make a breakthrough, see a new paradigm. Additionally I think that reading a little and thinking a lot, both before and after to avoid simply becoming 'programmed'. There is a huge difference between being force fed information, regurgitating answers And reading a book based on your own interest with no test and without the need to accept everything you read as final. The latter will make more discoverers (and discoveries) than the first method. On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Lennart Thornros <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, I am sure it is logical. Not everything that sounds logical is > logical. > As a matter of fact I think you have to find logic. You cannot teach it. > Yes, you can > give the theory but that is not what we talk about. > > I haven't heard your salt and books idea. Why the salt? > > > Best Regards , > Lennart Thornros > > www.StrategicLeadershipSac.com > [email protected] > +1 916 436 1899 > 202 Granite Park Court, Lincoln CA 95648 > > “Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a > commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.” PJM > > On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 3:53 PM, John Berry <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Well I guess the class in logic I was imagining was created by logical >> people to help make a logical improvement in logic. >> >> Of course if it is created by illogical and corrupt people to destroy and >> control logic, then I agree. >> Overall the best schooling is a brick of salt a a ton of books. >> >> John. >> >> >> >> On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Lennart Thornros <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> John Berry I agree with your conclusion. >>> I do not agree with that "Seems like there should be a class in logic >>> at school then if it isn't obvious enough." On the contrary that class will >>> make logic even more unusual.. >>> Maybe that Milton H. Erickson did wrong I do not know the circumstances. >>> However, I know that to persuade anyone else you need to engage both halves >>> of the brain and somehow a connection between two people's right brain >>> really helps to get information over. Yes, it can be misused (like most >>> other powers). Sometimes this connection is called trust and it is hard to >>> catch. >>> Today there is a very slim chance to convince somebody that LENR is >>> real. A lot of the trusted say the opposite (most of the academia). >>> Not only is the best 'medicine' to let them "bright enough join" on >>> their own terms, it is also best for LENR. The table will turn quickly when >>> the first generator is available. >>> >>> Best Regards , >>> Lennart Thornros >>> >>> www.StrategicLeadershipSac.com >>> [email protected] >>> +1 916 436 1899 >>> 202 Granite Park Court, Lincoln CA 95648 >>> >>> “Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a >>> commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.” PJM >>> >>> On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 2:20 PM, John Berry <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Jed, you sure can write a thoroughly depressing post. >>>> >>>> On the plus side if the world we have now is the result of a minority >>>> of people being logical (jokes about women vastly underestimate the >>>> problem) then it does give me hope for how great a society where the vast >>>> majority actually grasps logic and truth and holds it above whatever the >>>> popular belief might be. >>>> >>>> But I never had any training in logic, so I assumed it was something >>>> that most people naturally had but chose to reject (which we can all do as >>>> our right brain often wins out). >>>> >>>> But I guess that my logic came inbuilt as part of my being an INTJ. >>>> >>>> INTJ's have the highest IQ of any of the 16 Myers Briggs types, so are >>>> perhaps more likely to generate their own logic without any education. >>>> Introversion, intuition, thinking and judging sounds like the ingredients >>>> to invent logic independently. >>>> >>>> Seems like there should be a class in logic at school then if it isn't >>>> obvious enough. >>>> >>>> Increasingly emotional arguments, persuasion, conversational hypnosis >>>> and psychological pressure are looking like justifiable tools to get the >>>> needed agreement. >>>> >>>> Pioneer hypnotist Dr. Milton H. Erickson once won over a number of >>>> Doctors/Professors who had visited him with the intent of disallowing his >>>> work in some respect (I forget the details and I can't find a reference, >>>> would be in respect to psychology or psychiatry). >>>> Of course he used conversational hypnosis to reverse their intention. >>>> >>>> I would normally have considered it wrong to persuade right thinking >>>> people this way, but increasingly I am not sure they are common enough for >>>> that moral concern to be valid. >>>> >>>> If logic can't work, then I am unsure there are any other options, >>>> except as you say, going fishing. >>>> Let those bright enough join in if they will. >>>> >>>> John >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >
