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#170: TKP Insights: Philosophy

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

CHAPTER

Directives: The Importance of Trust

Imitation versus like knowing and understanding. I want to talk about directives a little bit more. They're great if you can get them from other people, but they're different. If you trust the source, then you don't need all of the supporting evidence. And so because I feel that way about nutrition, I can imagine somebody else feeling that way about technology or stoicism.

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