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The goal isn't to adopt a few new pattern rules or to memorize some new labels. The goal is to have so many pattern rules and so many labels and be aware of so many worldviews that they swirl together and allow you to become naive all over again. To be naive is to abandon your hard-earned worldview. It means seeing the world without prejudice and accepting it as it is, as opposed to the way you're expecting it to be.
—Seth Godin
Sunday, July 02, 2006

Salman Rushdie on memory

From a New York Times article on déjà vécu:
Salman Rushdie once observed that memory has its "own special kind" of truth. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies and vilifies also, he wrote in Midnight's Children, but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent version of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else's version more than his own.

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