USC Speech Flashcards
a way to solve a problem
inversion
how to be remembered when you die
well he wasn’t as bad as his brother
- character
knowledge
reading, learning machine, mental models
Processes
Checklists
Safest way to get what you want
Is to deserve it
Deliver to the world
What you would buy at the other end
Multidisciplinary approach - Marcus Cicero
is famous for saying that the man who doesn’t know what happened before he was born goes through life like a child
Intense ideology
Avoid - Scandinavian canoeists and whirlpools
Having an opinion on a subject
say that I’m not entitled to have an opinion on this subject unless I can state the arguments against my position better than the people who support it. I think only when I’ve reached that state am I qualified to speak.
Self serving bias
Ben Franklin, “If you would persuade, appeal to interest not to reason.”
Objectivity maintenance
Darwin paid particular attention to disconfirming evidence.
Plus checklists
Modes of thought
envy, resentment, revenge and self-pity are disastrous modes of thoughts. Self-pity gets fairly close to paranoia, and paranoia is one of the very hardest things to reverse
Assiduity
assiduity. I like that word because it means: sit down on your ass until you do it.
Terrible blows in life
And there I think the attitude of Epictetus is the best. He said that every missed chance in life was an opportunity to behave well, every missed chance in life was an opportunity to learn something, and that your duty was not to be submerged in self-pity
Non-egality
John Wooden when he was the number one basketball coach in the world. He just said to the bottom five players that you don’t get to play.
