usefully ignorant
usefully ignorant: knowing what to do when you don’t know what to do – Erica McWilliam
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usefully ignorant.. usefully preoccupied .. so not tempted to perpetuate people telling other people what to do).. so a means to keep out of the way (stop micromanaging et al) of the unconditional part of left to own devices ness.. it creates spaces of permission where people have nothing to prove
intellectness as cancerous distraction
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yrs later read this from maria popova [https://x.com/brainpicker/status/1797018283121529069]:
“Luckily for art,” the wise and wonderful Grace Paley observed in her advice to writers, “life is difficult, hard to understand, useless, and mysterious.” A century earlier, Thoreau made a similar case for the value of “useful ignorance.”
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and more years later this (still can’t figure out how to add link to old format pages – but pdf link is attached to image below):
The more comfortable we become with being stupid, the deeper we will wade into the unknown and the more likely we are to make big discoveries.
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perhaps a means to our becoming antifragile/aware/alive/us….
ie: 24\7 improv/unknowns/uncertainties – so we can practice living without prep.. which is life.. no? living w/o hiding behind prestige.. or whatever..
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know\ledge ness
be you. 