The mystic sees the parts and feels the whole. The artist feels the parts and creates the whole. The engineer assembles the parts and crafts the whole. The scientist measures the parts and explains the whole. All search for the hidden likeness within things.
@naval The politician sees the whole, but directs attention to the parts to create division, this making ruling the whole possible.
worldly wisdom: "What is elementary, worldly wisdom? Well, the first rule is that you can’t really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang ‘em back. If the facts don’t hang together on a latticework of theory, you don’t have them in a usable form." — Charlie Munger
@naval And a philosopher sees the parts and expresses the whole.
@naval Does this mean memecoins are going to zero ser!
@naval The quintessential man unifies and embodies the four.
@naval The politician sees the whole and divides it.
@naval The creative discovers the parts and intuits the whole.