# What would happen if John Galt was a person IRL?

**URL:** https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/what-would-happen-if-john-galt-was-a-person-irl/1965
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**Created:** [October 8, 2024, 4:41pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/what-would-happen-if-john-galt-was-a-person-irl/1965 "2024-10-08T16:41:28Z")
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### Author: ![ActiveMind](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/user_avatar/discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/activemind/32/5560_2.png) [@ActiveMind](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/ActiveMind)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2024, 11:54am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/what-would-happen-if-john-galt-was-a-person-irl/1965/9 "2024-11-13T11:54:02Z")

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> [@Elliot](#):
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> I think you should focus on your own learning between 50% and 95% of the time. But I don’t think you should do that exclusively. It’s OK to have big thoughts sometimes, even if you don’t really know what you’re talking about, but it should be a minority of the time.

I think engaging in big ideas discussion would be great to discover skills that you need to practice. You would see a closer connection of the skill you’re learning to what the skill is needed for. You would have a concrete example of how the skill would help rather than it just being a general prerequisite to the whole of philosophy.

> [@Introductions](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/introductions/363/7):
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> The topic I most enjoy to think, discuss and read about is philosophy.

I want to talk about philosophy on the forum, but I want it to be unbounded, so that has blocked me from doing much other things than just learning. However, if I’m honest with myself then I think I probably wouldn’t respond well to unbounded criticism. I want to do a project to learn to want unbounded criticism.

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