What Kind of World Do We Live In?

[ActiveMind]

@Elliot

Books can be reread if important.

That’s the right attitude.

@ActiveMind

I think it’s still holding me back that I think I have to do heavy analysis the first time I read important philosophy stuff.

I have this attitude from:

Learning Philosophy · Elliot Temple

When you disagree with something, or don’t understand something, or feel uncomfortable/hesitant/doubtful, stop reading and post to the Fallible Ideas Discussion Forum. Don’t gloss over problems; bring them up. Don’t pretend you’ll go back and discuss when you get to the end of the book; discuss now. You need to get issues addressed now so that you can take those answers into account while reading the rest. Mistakes will spiral out of control, and destroy the value of reading the rest, if unaddressed.

So wouldn’t my early mistakes destroy my understanding of Popper books? Or was this directed towards people who wouldn’t do a rereading with more analysis? Personally I do think I would benefit a lot from reading your Popper recommendations right now.

@Elliot

This is related to my attitude to writing. I’d usually rather write about a topic multiple times than do a lot of editing. I think it’s better practice and actually works better. I’ve written a lot of essays and discussion messages and the quality of my fast, easy writing has improved every year. I think a lot of beginners write something bad then spend a lot of time trying to fix it with editing. I like to have something that’s already pretty good before I edit it, and I don’t edit the majority of my writing.

I’m writing like this now. I’m spending time thinking, but not much editing. I haven’t been rewriting stuff though. I do often write on the same topic consecutive days in my journal though.