How happenstance plays a key role
This is
important story about Wallace and Darwin. Both came with same conclusion on one
of the important scientific discoveries “Survival of the Fittest”. Darwin will
be remembered since children read in school and Wallace will be remembered for
how luck sidelined him.
“Wallace was also famous during his lifetime, but his name did not continue forward to the public after he passed. At the time of his death, in 1913, Wallace was still famous, but because he was not as successful (or lucky) as Darwin at reaching mainstream audiences, he was quickly forgotten. It was only a twist of fate or the happenstance of age that Darwin was older and further along in his theory by the time Wallace evolved to that same place. In a way, Darwin was simply the one we naturally selected.”
“Wallace was also famous during his lifetime, but his name did not continue forward to the public after he passed. At the time of his death, in 1913, Wallace was still famous, but because he was not as successful (or lucky) as Darwin at reaching mainstream audiences, he was quickly forgotten. It was only a twist of fate or the happenstance of age that Darwin was older and further along in his theory by the time Wallace evolved to that same place. In a way, Darwin was simply the one we naturally selected.”
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You Don’t Know What You Want
We are ignorant on what is the reason behind most of the decisions
we take. We take it out of our impulse or instinct and subsequently give a
confirmation bias to it.
“A lot of what we call self-knowledge is actually
self-interpretation. So I see myself make a choice, and then when I’m asked
why, I just try to make as much sense of it as possible when I make an
explanation. But we do this so quickly and with such ease that we think we
actually know the answer.”
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