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              "plaintext": "There's this concept \"a beginner's mindset\". AFAIK it comes from Zen Buddhism. It's the idea that you should approach each task, activity, or the world in general with the mind of a beginner: being open to learning, examining, re-thinking. With being okay to admit that you're wrong or stupid or naive. Beginners have no problem feeling this way. Experts do."
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              "plaintext": "When I first heard this my response was \"Ya okay that makes sense\". Maybe even \"Oh that sounds important\". But I didn't think much more about it. I was already approaching the world that way, of course, right?"
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              "plaintext": "The problem, I think, is that I didn't give it nearly enough weight. I thought about it, but didn't THINK about it, you know? But this concept is HEAVY. This is possibly the most important thing I have ever thought about. Instead of \"oh I should have a beginner's mind, sure thing' I wish my response was — I would like my response going forward to be — \"HOLY DAMN YOU ABSOLUTELY MUST HAVE A BEGINNERS MIND CHARLES THERE IS NOTHING MORE IMPORTANT FOCUS ON THIS AND NOTHING ELSE\"."
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              "plaintext": "The moment I stop having a beginner's mind, the moment I think \"I'm good at X\" or \"I'm doing so well\" or \"I've got it all figured out\" or \"I'm smart\", THAT is the moment that I stop learning. That's the moment I stop growing. That's the moment I die.^1"
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              "plaintext": "1: \"He not busy being born is busy dying.\""
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