It's all good
We don't have to eat everything on the plate, we don't even have to eat anything on the plate. Eat what you like and leave the rest or push the plate aside and order something else.
The author David Eddings who IMO wrote really good fantasy wrote a fiction story so I figured "well it's David Eddings, so of course it will be a great story"
Boy was I in for a surprise, I think i made it through 50 pages and just could not get any further, It was horrid.
Does that diminish my enjoyment of his Fantasy writing?
Not in the least.
A faucet of human thinking falls into the category of "truth givers" or in Eddings case "entertainment giver", the tendency to discover someone we respect on a certain subject or area and think perhaps that their views/skills apply in other or in some cases ALL area's, lets look at religion as an example here, if for example religion becomes someones "truth giver" it may be looked to not just for moral and spiritual guidance but since they become the iconic symbol for truth they can then be looked to for answers to questions perhaps outside their professed area of expertise this can lead to problems if say you are a scientist gathering empirical data on the earth being round in an era when the icons of truth have categorically stated that it is indeed flat.
On the other hand we can develop within ourselves the ability to adapt our thinking continually to available information and experience to add to our knowledge base, this may help with "old dog, new trick" syndrome.
Of course the pendulum may well swing to far the other way, best described in a joke.
"We have more an more specialists learning more and more about less and less, eventually their will be specialists who know absolutely everything about nothing.”
Nassim questioned everything since his youth, ofttimes getting chastised or thrown out of school.
It's because of this questioning, IMO, that played a part in the evolution of his theories in physics.
If my car breaks down, there is a extremely good chance I will seek advise from someone other than Nassim, unless he writes a book on car maintenance then we shall see
