Comments on: One Place For Your Priorities

By: Ryan Holiday

Ryan Holiday — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:55:16 +0000

Granted I wrote this a long time ago and you’re just being a troll, but I don’t remember this being particularly complimentary towards Tucker. In fact, I wrote about the subject again a few weeks ago to the same effect.

By: Whirlwind

Whirlwind — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:50:11 +0000

It kind of seems like maybe Tucker’s unique ability to reflect on things that haven’t happened yet has been on the fritz for the last year, because he seems to have gotten one or two minor things wrong with his predictions for the success of his movie.

By: Ryan Holiday

Ryan Holiday — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:03:53 +0000

I think you guys are reading way too much into this. I’m still working on learning how express what I’m thinking, I’m just not good enough as a writer to do it.

It breaks down like the very simple saying, that people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.

Unfortunately, not TED talk material and not much on creating your own meaning.

By: Napsterbater

Napsterbater — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 06:29:26 +0000

I’ve been turning it over in my head, and Ryan’s description of Tucker reminds me of a TED talk I saw in which a neuroscientist claims that the basis of intelligence is the ability to predict. Apparently, our brains are constantly weighing one scenario over another, and the more intelligent we are, the likelier our predictions are to be accurate. Assuming this characterization is accurate, I would conclude that Tucker is merely making his own high-level prediction abilities accessible to others, without making it explicitly known that he’s just predicting, rather than describing the past. It sounds like Tucker might get lost from time to time in this process, sifting through the different scenarios his brain comes up with. I wouldn’t call it so much an ability as a unique method of communicating.

By: John

John — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:36:45 +0000

The message Ryan is trying to establish in this post: we all lie to ourselves, yet we are not aware of it. When we realize this, we understand how much bullshit our thinking really is. Then he talks about how he can read so many books, which is that he identifies the underlying thesis of a book and applies it to his life. If you really want to know the main message of Ryan’s blog, it is this: there is no meaning in this world; therefore, create your own meaning and make yourself an art pieace.

By: Jeff T

Jeff T — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:00:27 +0000

I think Ryan is referring to posts like this: http://ihopetheyservebeerinhell.com/archives/what_does_a_pro_1.html Noticing Tucker's ego is pretty easy. Noticing your own is harder.

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:12:34 +0000

The way I see it, is it’s basically consulting an empathetic response to your future self in order to make current judgments and decisions. Well put. If that’s what you mean, then I do the same thing. I’m not sure it’s that rare of an activity, so much as it’s rare to actually heed what you learn from it.

By: Milky Way

Milky Way — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:15:49 +0000

I’m confused too. Could you elaborate on what prompted this a little more?

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:04:19 +0000

No, the post definitely could use some clarification. It’s sort of representative of a broader trend I’m noticing in your posts: casual name drop, brief, vague, disorienting riff on life experience, culminating in a truism. Still better than most other sites though.

Same truism, expressed less stalely:

“Read only your own life, and from this understand the hieroglyphs of universal life!”

-Nietzsche

By: Drock

Drock — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:20:47 +0000

Umm–Tucker does something that Ryan was critical about, then he thought about it, figured out that he has an analogous tendency and then decided that the only one he had the right to worry about was himself.

How is that confusing?