Intelligence doesn't make you better at finding truth. It makes you better at arguing. These aren't the same thing—and confusing them produces a specific kind of error: confident, sophisticated, and nearly impervious to correction.
We've engineered boredom out of existence and called it productivity. But boredom wasn't the enemy—it was the prerequisite for thinking. We've been optimizing away the one thing that lets us process experience and generate original ideas.
You don't store memories—you reconstruct them. Every time you remember something, you subtly rewrite it. Which means the lessons you've drawn from your past are built on edited evidence.